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Nobody here’s against self-reflection or questioning or critical thinking. These comments come from people who explicitly did do self-reflection and left. The ones who don’t are still in the evangelical system, I presume.

Believe it or not though, those things have an empirical or social component. Namely, if seemingly rational actors (by all means grill them) are giving such grave warnings, which is an astonishingly rare event… Heed them.

This is more prudence and modesty than mindless or naive deference, an ironically fine line given the subject matter. Lastly, this isn’t simply a black-and-white matter of “good and bad” however comfortable it is to give in to the impulse to reduce everything to such. Reminder: following said impulse doesn’t make you any more moral than the next person.

Jakarta police authorities confirmed that a cybercrime task force has officially launched an investigation to track down the individuals behind the accounts.

Are they posting pictures online or something? Otherwise it’s just regular crime. A “cybercrime task force” just sounds like coppers embellishing their menial ass jobs that they generally suck at doing.

Sounds like the real issue here is that Indonesian child prostitution is publicly advertised on an international online space, thus resulting in lost face (lul), rather than the fact that it’s (presumably) readily available–and always has been–to those with means (money).

On a relatively brighter pixel, I agree with you on this at least.

Ordinary education starting at a young age about fundamental prosocial values, dignity, and shared (and local) interests. Critical thinking skills and practice asking questions like “how will this actually help? Where is it coming from? Cui bono?”

And just being open-minded and not overly emotional (and thus easily manipulated).

And point out that unfortunately many entities out there are more than happy to use them as pawns and care not a wit about the wellbeing of them or their friends, neighbours, or loved ones.

But, putting that into schools would be decried as the boogeyman of “socialism” or even xenophobia or something. Irony

I don’t think you know what “classy” meant in this context. It’s an insult. When used to describe a person, it’s almost always an insult.

“As I served you in the old wars, I serve you now.”

Uhhhh

“seeing other women” means “not exclusive”

but “not exclusive” does not always mean “seeing other women”

He could be, just as one example of many, very unsuccessful at trying to see other women despite having an existing “nonexclusivity” agreement with her.

A new kind of serial killer 😂