Dragan
You have justified "the way it is" for Nations by saying effectively "because that's the rules". I ask again, why should "rules", "being born" and all the rest of it, only apply to Nations as a justification for actions when you say it is abhorent for Religions to behave exactly the same way?
I have no comment re "liberating Ladies" except to say that New Zealand emancipated even before Iceland, i.e. we were first in world to come to our senses and acknowledge that women have minds and a right to vote, and NZ was a strongly WASP community in those days. Draw a tenuous conn ection if you wish. < g >
I'll pass this exchange to Claire next time I see her, she's in NZ at present while I'm in USA.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
