Originally posted by SoyElTurco
In some countries, alcohol (i.e. vodka) is made extremely cheap as it serves to distract the public from the more pertinent matters of the state. It literally serves to drug up a nation in the interests of the government. All they have to do to upkeep it is to cater to a well established alcoholic or drugged up lifestyle of the public. Russia is a good example of this with vodka (and I hear it is very cheap in Armenia too, though I've only been informed of this from one person), but other countries, like America, have a more diversified approach in drugging up the youth of the nation, let alone the soldiers and war veterans. In America's case, I find that this drugged upness of the public is just complementary to its liberal ideology, which already serves to disintegrate the fabric that built the nation to begin with. Giving more rights to minority groups and special interest groups than the general public can ever hope to receive... Hearing about gay marriage debates out of California instead of its traumatic forest fires.
In some countries however, fanatic religion is good enough to heard the sheep, so drugs and alcohol aren't required. These countries are police states. America isn't there yet, but it's on its way.
My point to you is, I wouldn't be too proud of a sharia law situation. It is not "morally" superior to what is going on in America as you cut it out to be. When you are denied of even conceiving alternatives in your mind that are common in the west, this doesn't make you any better. You find moral high ground because of a synthetic position that was forced upon you, not one you won for yourself.
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