Wtf is the minimum age to become a Thai prizefighter???

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Let me get up on my soapbox for a moment.

Reality check time. There are universal truths and an international human rights standard, and most importantly evil is a very real and palpable human trait that in its most depraved forms should be fought relentlessly without consideration given to the myriad of excuses one may come up with to sweep said evil behaviors under the carpet. In the spirit of true egalitarianism and fairness, there is no one on planet earth that should get a pass for inflicting cruelty and violence on a child in general, and that should also apply to forcing children to engage in cruel and violent acts on one another, because the participants are too young to give consent. They don't even know what they're doing, most kids at 18 are unsure of the path they're going to choose to pursue in their lives, hell... many 25 year olds are still trying to figure their **** out. So the idea that these kids are being forced into what is essentially a horrifically violent bloodsport that quite frankly I'm not even sure adults should be allowed to legally participate in, and not only that but that act is being defended by some, is an absolute ****ing abomination.

No consideration should be given to third world countries traditions and cultures, if those traditions and cultures are barbaric, savage and inhuman practices that strip people of their free will and dignity, those traditions and cultural eccentricities and quirks should be not only condemned universally but eradicated from the planet with malice.

I hate to break it to you but... raping people is wrong, just because it may be legal in a particular third world country, that doesn't mean that custom should be reflexively defended. Throwing gays from rooftops and hanging them isn't tolerated in the West, so Muslim and African countries shouldn't get a pass. Forcing women to dress a certain way against their will isn't tolerated in the West, so it shouldn't be tolerated anywhere else. Because guess what, forcing people to do something against their will or punishing them with the death penalty because they did some innocuous act that's against their religion, IS WRONG NO MATTER WHAT, and zero exceptions that should be given. Be more ****ing consistent. Quit infantilizing and patronizing these cultures, apply the same standard you set for your own to everyone else on planet earth, you can't pick and choose where child abuse is and isn't tolerable because you're afraid to be called racist, BECAUSE ITS NEVER TOLERABLE. Quit allowing yourself to be browbeaten and herded into the groupthink wagon of conformity and forcing yourself to commit repeated acts of intellectual dishonesty on a day to day basis, because someone waves the threat of a -ism or -ist label at you. It is not racist to condemn inhuman practices that don't conform to universally held human rights standards, in fact that is one of the most illogical things I've ever heard, its being consistent and applying the same standard to everyone. Its actually the exact opposite of racism. Its treating everyone the same.

Killing someone here is wrong, killing someone there is wrong. There's no exceptions, there's no excuses, so stop twisting yourselves into a morally ambiguous intellectually dishonest cognitive dissonance inducing bind to make them.

Condemning atrocities committed by people in every country in the world equally, with no exception given to them based on their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, political beliefs is the liberal position to take, its the genuinely egalitarian position to take. So stop making excuses, have a consistent standard, and stop making yourselves look like hypocrites in an attempt to defend the indefensible because some college professors or an idiot talking head on TV has convinced you to hate your own culture which is enlightened and liberal and defend cultural practices that are inhuman, illiberal and barbaric, because they have some hackneyed harebrained morally relativistic, nihilistic post modern, deconstructionist view of the world and ideal they want to push down your throats. Wrong is wrong, no matter who you are, what race you are, what faith you have. Wrong is WRONG.

Stop overthinking everything and just set your internal moral compass to being a kind hearted, fair minded, decent, good natured person, and you'll usually make the right decisions and take the morally right positions. Criticizing evil regardless of the source of evil, is not a bad thing, its a good thing. Treating everyone regardless of culture the same. That is true equality.

 

It doesn't, because in most countries the participants are consenting adults or at the very least, damn near. I'm talking about children 14 and younger participating in an adult sport occasionally against actual adults, which is incontrovertibly wrong.