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  • I can’t remember the title but that’s pretty much the same plot as the first english romance novel ever written.

    It “makes sense” considering the honor-shame society the story was created for. A pure, pious woman is pitted against a shameful, violent man. The central motif is the radiant woman purifying the shameful man who converts (to Christianity) and courts the woman according to social norms instead of violently raping her. This is framed as a good ending because his shame is removed.

    If you value innocence over honor this is completely incomprehensible. The guilt is still there, it was never accounted for.

    Edit: Oh, and Marry-your-rapist-laws were and are still more common than you might know. Even if countries that don’t have one, individual courts may still decide that way.


  • Unfortunately the principle of degressive proportionality of votes per country to population of country is enshrined in EU law. It’s free to interpret that principle as it wishes but it can’t do away with it. My favourite proposal got axed in the 2010s: it would have given citizens two votes, one for a national list and one for a transnational list - I think the idea was that 75% of seats would be filled by winners of national lists and 25% by those of transnational lists. Unfortunately it died along with many other proposed reforms.





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    17 days ago

    Genau! War ein bisschen genervt als ich den Kommentar geschrieben habe aber ich finde den “keine Grenzen” Gedanken von Vogel/Fluss sehr cool und fänd eine Globusansicht oder sowas nice. 2007 hatten wir das Problem ja schonmal auf den Münzen