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  • This is a place where honor killings, female genital mutilation, and arranged/child marriages are commonplace. I get that progress takes time, and that war was a major setback, but trying to portray Iraq as a safe place for women to travel is disingenuous at best.

    Also:

    “they even sometimes have more freedom then men here,”

    Wtf are you smoking? Please give me an example of a situation in which this is true, because considering what I’ve read so far, i have MAJOR doubts.


  • I’d love to visit Iraq and other parts of the middle east, but the culture surrounding women and their rights prevents me from going. I havent checked out Iraq specifically, but based on my reading of nearby Egypt, it’s so ass backwards that I couldn’t in good conscience take my wife there. The risk of sexual harassment, assault, etc is just too great.



  • On an existential level, a cosmic blip of conciousness inhabiting a stinky primate. Totally insignificant on the grand scale, but also my own personal god. Ultimately, my experience begins and ends with me, so who else but myself should I seek to please? Dont get me wrong, I’m not a sociopath, one of my many joys in life (for which I feel incredibly fortunate) is being kind and loving to my friends and family, helping others to succeed in their goals and being a positive influence in general.

    I also beleive us to be in a deterministic universe, so you might call one a “perfect version” of themselves, in that they are exactly where they always would have been.