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Malaysia earthquake: British woman arrested for 'stripping naked and causing quake

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  • #152
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭josip


    You can repeat something as often as you like.
    It doesn't necessarily make it true.


  • #153
    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    josip wrote: »
    You can repeat something as often as you like.
    It doesn't necessarily make it true.
    That's true, but back to the discussion - So you would be fine with a group of Malaysian tourists being arrested in Ireland for posing for a few topless pictures on top of Croagh Patrick? Or Carantouhill? Or Nephin? Or Mweelrea? Or Mount Leinster? You would think they deserved punishment, that they deserved everything they get?

    A mountain is a mountain is a mountain. Yes, the Malaysian people hold that mountain to be sacred in Malaysia, and yes they make whatever laws they like (which tourists should obey), and of course we should behave respectfully if traveling there by not acting like intolerant, western snobs - So I have no issue with the criticism aimed at the tourists, they behaved like idiots - though I do think it did border on going over the top on this thread, with some trying a bit too hard to prove how cultured and tolerant they are.

    However, it is not disrespectful, or intolerant, or western snobbery, to quietly point out that arresting people for posing topless on top of a mountain because the mountain is held to be sacred by people, is irrational. It's amazing how people cannot see the difference between being intolerant and disrespectful towards the Malaysian people, and criticism of an idea.


  • #154
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Alright, to turn the question around - our culture considers churches to be sacred (well, a lot of us). Their culture considers the mountain to be sacred. Do you think people should be arrested for getting naked in a church?


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