Well, yes, but that's why this post is against intolerance and not criticism :)
My understanding of FGM is pretty limited too, and I think it varies a LOT depending on region etc.
There's an interesting grey area: how informed do you have to be before it's okay to criticise? Also: how many roads must a man walk down? :P
42 :D
But yes, it's hard. I mean we have to make judgements about all this stuff (foreign policy, the environment, politics in general etc) and if we go by the crappy generalisations of popular culture we'll probably make the wrong decisions, but it's not feasible to get a really detailed understanding of EVERYTHING. This is why I try to identify better crappy generalisations, and good rules of thumb like "it's better to let people within a country create their own change than force it from outside" but then the information I make those judgements based on is itself flawed...
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My understanding of FGM is pretty limited too, and I think it varies a LOT depending on region etc.
There's an interesting grey area: how informed do you have to be before it's okay to criticise? Also: how many roads must a man walk down? :P
42 :D
But yes, it's hard. I mean we have to make judgements about all this stuff (foreign policy, the environment, politics in general etc) and if we go by the crappy generalisations of popular culture we'll probably make the wrong decisions, but it's not feasible to get a really detailed understanding of EVERYTHING. This is why I try to identify better crappy generalisations, and good rules of thumb like "it's better to let people within a country create their own change than force it from outside" but then the information I make those judgements based on is itself flawed...