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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
I never said anything was wrong about wearing a patch. I think it is perfectly fine for individuals to express their personal beliefs. I think it is wrong for an organization to force that upon people though. My best friend is a lesbian, a Hindi lesbian at that. I hear everything she goes through with her family, but guess what? While it hurts her, she understands that the culture is against it and she knows changes cannot be forced. They need to come at their own pace.
Just because I am not judging a society because they aren't as tolerant as we claim to be, does not make me a hypocrite.
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Pretty much every prominient name in history, either new or old, would disagree with you. In fact I believe that they would all say that the exact opposite of what you (and your friend) claim is true.
Society changes when people force it to change. Whether that force is a violent revolution or a passive resistance does not matter, it still requires people to actively force the society's change to occur. If no one forces change to take place, odds are nothing will change because the other people will be actively trying to force things to stay the way they are.
I believe that your friend feels that this is too big of a cause for her to take on but the change will not come naturally, it will occur because someone else takes action and forces the issue.
The same thing with Russia. They may be massively homophobic to the point of killing their friends and relatives if they find out that they are gay. The only way change will occur is if the global community stops them, tells them they are wrong, shames them and pressures them into fixing their society's thinking.