re: #174 elbruce

I find the madness of killing ‘witches’ in Somalia appalling. I find that Thai Buddhist women say a prayer that they might be reincarnated as men depressing. And the Tibetan Buddhists had a rigid caste state with elements of slavery, they weren’t wonderful egalitarians. I think that there are many worse excesses of religion than there are found in the US.

But I think people in the US have much less of an excuse than those in other parts of the world. I also think I live in the US, so the people getting laws passed in Oklahoma mandating that women who have been raped and want an abortion get re-raped should be more of a concern to me than what people are doing in a country I have no control over at all and am not a citizen of.