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Originally Posted by 81MC
but if we start calling societies 'garbage' based on their views and beliefs
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I don't know, views and beliefs seem like a pretty good reason to label a society to me.
When an independent Russian organization is doing a poll indicating that at best 3% of Russians believe in equal rights for the LGBT community, while 21% want to kill them altogether at what point can we judge that society?
It's also got to be given context, the world has progressed. We shouldn't completely compare one generation to another. You can go back far enough and any society is pretty much trash in comparison to progressive countries now. But you can see the progress, women voting, interracial marriage, gay marriage, for the most part you can see progress even if terrible things were (are) happening in that society. Heck, a lot of people on this board were alive when the Alberta Eugenics Board existed. Pretty much 99% of CP was alive when the last Residential School existed. Russia is a developing nation, but it's not progressing like others have. It's deteriorating, it's getting worse when it comes to LGBT acceptance by both the laws and the societal values.
They know of the progress the west has had. They aren't isolated. They see that LGBT, women and religious people are getting equal rights in other places in the world...and they spit on it.