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We assume that all societies have the same values as us, and will be bound by some sense of honor and shame. This is not to say there aren't bad actors in our society, but the general case is an expectation of decency.
Having traveled, worked, lived and done business in different societies around the world, I have learned that this is an absolutely, spectacularly, stupidly wrong assumption. There are a few places that have a code of honor, even if the details might differ, that keeps their societies functioning on a sustainable level -- Japanese and Northern Europeans. There are a few where segments of society are honorable - mostly like the upper classes of Persians, Indians, Malays, - but they are outnumbered in varying proportions by the more barbaric segments of their society. As with any generalization, you can nitpick and split hairs, but that's been my experience.
This faulty assumption (or lack of awareness) about universal decency not only prevents us from imagining that some groups might take advantage of this, and infiltrate and plot against our interests - it also leads to us living in denial even after evidence of this reality is presented to us.
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This is precisely why Sweden is in the mess it's currently in - their "code of honour" is being abused by unscrupulous fucks who only want them genocided.
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[–] SerialChiller 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
We assume that all societies have the same values as us, and will be bound by some sense of honor and shame. This is not to say there aren't bad actors in our society, but the general case is an expectation of decency.
Having traveled, worked, lived and done business in different societies around the world, I have learned that this is an absolutely, spectacularly, stupidly wrong assumption. There are a few places that have a code of honor, even if the details might differ, that keeps their societies functioning on a sustainable level -- Japanese and Northern Europeans. There are a few where segments of society are honorable - mostly like the upper classes of Persians, Indians, Malays, - but they are outnumbered in varying proportions by the more barbaric segments of their society. As with any generalization, you can nitpick and split hairs, but that's been my experience.
This faulty assumption (or lack of awareness) about universal decency not only prevents us from imagining that some groups might take advantage of this, and infiltrate and plot against our interests - it also leads to us living in denial even after evidence of this reality is presented to us.
[–] Intrixina 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This is precisely why Sweden is in the mess it's currently in - their "code of honour" is being abused by unscrupulous fucks who only want them genocided.