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A 22-year-old woman dies after being beaten by morality police

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23 pointsmichaeltimo12 comments

This is sad as hell. I feel bad for the people who have to live under this regime and potentially risk death just to fight for the minuscule right to walk around without a particular type of clothing on.

Why do governments (or any groups of people, for that matter) feel the need to impose their moral values on others? What does it matter how someone looks, dresses, or acts so long as it isn't causing harm?

So horrible! Unfortunately she was born into a backwards country.

Well, this "backwards" country is mostly made of people like this girl. You think she's among the minority?

https://gamaan.org/2020/08/25/iranians-attitudes-toward-reli...

So, what's your point? It's the fault of people just like her? It's the fault of the government? What are you trying to say?

Of course I believe it’s a crime committed by the the oppressive regime.

Most people in Iran don’t think like the government does. When you call a country backwards, you actually call its people backwards obviously, which this girl was one of, and I wanted to point out that it’s not the case as shown in the provided reference.

OK. I understand, and I think I agree.

> woman dies after being beaten by morality police

Reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Ames#Death

Is this making the circuits because neocons want to invade Iran? It's not exactly uncommon for the middle east.

Out of basic human compassion and the fact that many in HN care?

By the way, I am not sure if you're from US (sound like it), but for context, let me put what you said in perspective using an _analogy_ that might be more familiar. Imagine, after a school shooting, someone says, "Why is it in the news all the time? It's not exactly uncommon in the United States for children to get shot in the school."

People say that all time

> Pause to consider a whole new perspective with the Guardian

Some journalism will be nice. Thank you.

Despite the recipes, culture war forays, and lesbian dance theoretical discourse, you will note that the Grauniad regularly breaks top stories, such as the Snowden revelations. Their international news is unrivaled in the consistency and quality of coverage. Where even an American staple like NPR regularly mixes cute dog stories with headline news, you can count on daily updates to major world storylines in the Guardian. Witness their coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, for example, to see: “day 265” or whatever it is by now, with clear threading and updates to those threads.

Al Jazeera is OK, but tends to be inconsistent in coverage and carry a relentless Gulf perspective, which is great for the region, but not anywhere close to the level of serious journalism the G brings to the table. Even the Washington Post, with its paywalled exclusive appeal to mainstream centrist Democrat-leaning upper-middle class folks fails to achieve the consistency and egalitarianism of the Guardian. It’s simply the pinnacle of modern journalism, in my opinion, and as such, belongs to its own category.

Serious journalism indeed

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