05-08-2009, 03:17 PM
Quote:Well, at least they found a way to find a cause, like doctors treating AIDS, or hanging homosexuals, that they could rally around.Is the treatment of Homosexuals somehow a lesser issue of human rights than punishments for adultery? Is preventing doctors from treating AIDS somehow not up to the level of forcing one's religion on people? You seem to have contempt for liberals for "rallying" around causes they believe in, when you are simultaneously contemptuous for *not* rallying around causes they believe in. Which is it?
Quote:We no longer put people in stocks, or "draw and quarter" people, or publicly hang people, or do many of the barbaric punishments that were once practiced in the early US and Europe. How do we get Iran to evolve to a more humane understanding of crime and punishment?What an interesting question. Might I suggest that the best answer you have is... diplomacy?
-Jester