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Originally Posted by CDSmith
I took that as more of a celebratory thing, and not in the vein of bragging. I did not see him ask anyone if they thought what he was doing was right or wrong though.
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Ofcourse, he wasn't asking for people's moral judgements, he was just posting fun pics. However, by sharing the pics with others, he inadvertently made it their business.
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Originally Posted by CDSmith
I still say if you are against something like that (which is legal), you are wasting your time crying and whining at one lone "offender" when you could be actively working against the entire practice by attempting to have the laws changed.
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It seems to me that there is something of a more personal nature behind this sudden attack than fluff is letting on. Otherwise he's just wasting his time with the little picture.
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Well, that's the traditional way to look at it, but postmodernist sociology would disagree with that position. The idea that real changes are made from the top, through purely political means, at first glance seems to be reasonable - how much can a single person do, after all?
However, upon closer inspection, the idea that society is created "from the top" (ie by politics) seems to make less sense than the idea that politics are created "from the bottom" (ie by society). If enough people share an idea, or apply social pressure, society as a whole will probably follow.
If enough people condemn sex tourism and those who engage in it, that social pressure will likely cause a sharp decrease in sex tourism and thus demand, while at the same time it will cause governments to be more likely to take action against it. Getting people to condemn something is in most cases not done through government campaigns, but rather through private conversations.
So, what you're seeing here is "politics in action", in a more direct and fundamental way than purely traditional political action could ever achieve.