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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rushie510" data-source="post: 10615626" data-attributes="member: 331880">Look, this is not about respect for the majority and lack of thereof. This is about the thread starter posting some people's photos on the internet and trying to label them as prostitutes and so on. What we are trying to tell is that while he's entitled to whatever opinion he has, what he's not entitled to is bashing other people's lifestyles simply because he doesn't agree with them. Like you said, if he doesn't like what they do, he should not do those things or marry a girl like that. It doesn't give him any right to try to force his morals and opinions on other people. Nobody condemned his view. What they condemned was his condemnation of other people's views.If somebody acts like this, it's because they want to. This is a democracy and no one should be telling other people what to do. Society changes. Dress code changes. What is right today will be wrong tomorrow. That is how it has always been. Just because our people practiced polygamy in the past, doesn't mean we do it now, right? So telling the society will be imbalanced because of this is total BS. (Ironically, that is what they said about universal free education and education and social rights for women. They said it would 'imbalance the society'.)(I don't go clubbing simply because I don't find that entertaining. I  wear denims and baggy T's just because I like them. That doesn't hive me  any right to criticize people who do go clubbing and wear mini-skirts.  That is their right.) Imagine if this was the other way round. What if this was the country where the total opposite was the accepted mode of life, and people who don't party and don't date were considered losers? (There are countries like that, you know.) So does the majority then have the right to insult us for being virgins and wearing 'decent' (boring) clothes? How would you react then? Would you say that it is their view and we have to respect the majority view? Everything is relative. Being the majority (if that is so) doesn't give you the right to insult minorities without any retribution. All the problems in this country originated from that sort of thinking. The minority should respect the majority, but the majority can say any crap about the minorities and limit their freedom.  All in all, you can't be a bigoted jerk without having other people be jerks to you in return. Nobody here criticized the Sri Lankan way of life. It is just that everyone has a right to live their own lives the way they want, which the thread starter doesn't believe in. Live and let live!</blockquote>

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