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Where did you get this notion that Qatar is objectively wrong? That is what I am trying to find. People say X is wrong. Ok cool but why is that the case? Why does yourself or your society have authority to decide that this is wrong?

A few decades ago it was wrong in western society. Now it is morally correct. So is the morality and understanding of the world pinned to the Anglo-sphere?

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If you need to be convinced that mistreating people is wrong there is no point arguing.

The fact that decades ago something was considered wrong, and since has been accepted, makes it no excuse for it to be considered wrong today.

And no, the morality and understanding of the world should not be pinned to the Anglo-sphere, but the west just happens to be the most progressive in terms of human rights at this moment in history. If Quatar wants to take the lead and ask all other countries to follow, by all means.

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