/lit/ - Literature

>>9243768
You're losing track of the conversation.
We started out with the idea that forcing other countries to accept lgbt rights was soft collonialism, and we should leave them to their own devices, went from that to the question to whether people in general have intrinsic rights.
If they do it is our moral duty to stop "the muzzies" from murdering non-believers and ethnic minorities in the streets.
If human rights are a mem, and authority can be used to justify pretty much anything then taking over these countries and establishing our own stable dictatorship is much more economically effective than having to extract them while dealing with sabotage by enemy militias and juggling the political aspects of these resources being contested by other superpowers. Unless you mean to say that it's more beneficial to keep the middle east a proxy-warzone because it stabilizes our own region. In either case your whole "we gotta accept foreign states sovereignty because muh natural authority" argument falls apart.

Face it anon, your ideology is folding in on itself because of its inner contradictions.
Crying about imperialism and oppression of other people and nations by westerners only works if you are willing to admit that they should be respected as sovereign entities in the first place, with all the implications that carries with it. To justify the legitimacy of barbaric shitholes you have to be willing to justify barbarism itself, and I can use that same reasoning to justify the very acts of imperialism you are trying to criticize.

>>4628573
Authors often write from the perspective of people who are radically different from themselves, about situations which they have never experienced. What makes you think that gender or race poses a bigger barrier than personality and circumstance?

>>4424709
>No Rabbit
>No cheshire cat
>No caterpillar
>No Mad Hatter

>More enjoyable than the first part