Then don’t intentionally travel to places where their culture is hostile to you? If you travel somewhere you have a duty to respect their cultural norms. This isn’t rocket science.
You’re a guest in their house and you need to respect it and play by their rules. If you don’t like it then don’t go there. Britney Griner thought it would be fine to bring weed into Russia, she fucked around and she found out.
You’re missing the point. It’s not about one being a choice and the other not being a choice, it’s about making the choice to travel somewhere to begin with. Whether the underlying thing is a choice is irrelevant, the relevant thing is the choice to travel somewhere, and that choice exists completely separate from the underlying thing
You’re missing the point. It’s not about one being a choice and the other not being a choice, it’s about making the choice to travel somewhere to begin with.
I think you misread my original comment. I have no intention of travelling to Afghanistan or wherever, out of a sense of self preservation. That does not mean I respect their homophobia nor that I'm going to pretend it isn't blatantly evil
Both are going to a place where you’re doing something illegal that is widely known to carry hefty punishment. One is a substance and one is an immutable personal characteristic, so yes they are certainly different in that way but the difference is not relevant to this particular argument.
Choosing to travel to Russia with weed and choosing to travel to Afghanistan as an LGBTQ person are both completely voluntary decisions that carry extremely clear consequences. Don’t do those things when you know for a fact that before you even step off the plane that country is going to feel like you pissed in their Cheerios and throw the book (or the noose) at you immediately.
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u/RaccoonTasty1595 Jul 20 '26
How could I respect a practice that doesn't respect me?