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One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

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Post by ls15 »

azth wrote: post #379
ls15 wrote: post #325

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To the neighbour that I cannot reply to: > Please respect conservative views on life too. I think it is a good idea to marry first especially if you are a woman. I respect all kinds of viewpoints as long as they respect other viewpoints as well. A viewpoint that tries to jail people for their very personal decisions is inherently not respectable, because it is itself by definition lacking respect.

Who said that such decisions are personal, and won't affect society?

I say they are personal, because they affect the individual much more than anyone else. Of course everything we do is affecting society somehow, but that does not eliminate personal freedom. If it affects me more than it affects you, my opinion weighs more than your's and vice versa.

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Post by necovek »

tut-urut-utut wrote: post #179

I'm not sure about Qatar, but many Islamic countries got around such regulations by introducing or tolerating "one night marriages". They just marry before having sex, and divorce afterwards. Islam doesn't forbid men to have more than one wife simultaneously, so it covers even already married customers.

What about married women?

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Post by necovek »

ravar wrote: post #369
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #82

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And why don't we in the west sanction them or refuse to trade with them for this practice? Not only that but we're actively supporting these regimes and selling them cutting edge weapons. Why is that? 'checks notes' Oh, right, oil.

Yeah our willingness to sanction Russia and all their oil, plunging europe into shortages kinda falsifies that theory. I wonder what the actual reason is :)

You mean everything but their oil?

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Post by mensetmanusman »

smcl wrote: post #284
mensetmanusman wrote: post #143

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If alcohol is involved, there is no way to be sure

Sorry, what is it that you're trying to say?

The percentage of one night stands that reach OP’s ideal thresholds approaches zero with increasing alcohol consumption.

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Post by lordnacho »

brobdingnagians wrote: post #368
lordnacho wrote: post #44

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> It's their culture, their country, do we have a moral right to say country barbaric for their cultural norms they accepted for hundreds of years? Yes, who am I to say that throwing a virgin into a volcano to please the fire god is barbaric? They've done it for hundreds of years! You know what's barbaric? Abolitionism! Slavery has been part of our society for hundreds of years, and that fellow Wilberforce thinks he…

If you dig below the surface a little bit,most countries are barbaric, and not just by culturally relative things. Just one of many examples, the US openly tortures innocent individuals, persecutes journalists, and has started more wars in the last century than any other country. That's pretty warlike and barbaric, but if the entire world decided to boycott and sanction the US, Americans would throw a tantrum and ran…

But we are free to point out that the US has a bunch of people in jail for minor crimes, they still has the death penalty, lacks abortion availability in many places, bullies other countries, and so on.

We don't keep our mouths shut about that just because it's a foreign culture.

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Post by tut-urut-utut »

necovek wrote: post #382
tut-urut-utut wrote: post #179

I'm not sure about Qatar, but many Islamic countries got around such regulations by introducing or tolerating "one night marriages". They just marry before having sex, and divorce afterwards. Islam doesn't forbid men to have more than one wife simultaneously, so it covers even already married customers.

What about married women?

I doubt there will be many there during the football World Cup, you Unmensch.

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Post by qubex »

shafyy wrote: post #180
qubex wrote: post #158

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My partner and I are in a heterosexual relationship. We often hold hands in public, sometimes we kiss, sometimes one or the other or both have arms around the others’ waist. Our ordinary behaviour could get us in trouble there? Fine, I wasn’t planning on going anyway. But why on earth would this disturb anybody? It’s not like people make out in public.

What's so bad about making out in public?

By my measure? Nothing.

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

soco wrote: post #378
aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #352

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It seemed clear they were saying common law marriages (assumed after a period of time) aren't respected there.

In which country a marriage is assumed after a period of time? That's news to me...

Some parts of the US still have a concept called "common-law marriage"[1]. Most of the west seems to have abolished it by the 1700s, but there have been a few jurisdictions that are stragglers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_Uni...

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Post by rightbyte »

falcolas wrote: post #276
rightbyte wrote: post #226

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You rather not be married if you are to be raped I guess? Do I read the rules correctly?

It depends on if you’re ok being sold off to your rapist. Can’t see how that could go wrong.

Ye that one sucks. Talk about perverse incentives ...

I was wondering if married rape victims would be executed, or if it is implicit that they get the same blameless treatment as engaged rape vicitims. It is not clear from the context if you read litteraly.

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Post by Lio »

pishpash wrote: post #371
shmde wrote: post #176

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If watching 2 people being affectionate towards one another is spiritual pollution then maybe your spiritualism sucks ass ?

Yet we don't allow them to go too far or it becomes public indecency. Why? "Indecency" is completely cultural. People are triggered by different things. Somebody above is disgusted by a standard bodily function when done in public.

If you’re talking about me, I’m not disgusted with standard bodily functions done in public.

If you want to use a street urinal or similar that’s fine by me. If you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go.

I think what most people object to is what’s left behind; the piss and shit, not the act itself.

I don’t want to step in it or smell it or see it. Same goes for dog shit.

You’re not going to catch something from passing strangers holding hands, except maybe a broader world view.

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