I think what you're saying here is absolutely true.
But I think you're also overlooking two factors: first, the way that a climate filled with generalized violence and uncertainty can radicalize people and remove their normal inhibitions against awful things; and second, the way that people will overlook all kinds of moral restraints if they think they're doing something that will result in the "greater good."
If relatively non-traumatized American neoconservatives are willing to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians for the sake of some idealized world-building, we shouldn't be too surprised that a brutalized woman, who grew up in a repressive religion under one dictatorship, only to see her country then handed off to a new, foreign, power, would be willing to brutalize other women as a way of getting back at anything within reach...
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Date: 2009-02-05 07:59 pm (UTC)But I think you're also overlooking two factors: first, the way that a climate filled with generalized violence and uncertainty can radicalize people and remove their normal inhibitions against awful things; and second, the way that people will overlook all kinds of moral restraints if they think they're doing something that will result in the "greater good."
If relatively non-traumatized American neoconservatives are willing to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians for the sake of some idealized world-building, we shouldn't be too surprised that a brutalized woman, who grew up in a repressive religion under one dictatorship, only to see her country then handed off to a new, foreign, power, would be willing to brutalize other women as a way of getting back at anything within reach...