ebrown_p wrote:Bill, that is so tragic...
What did your lover do to get in trouble (I am assuming the American O'Bill has a similar story?)
She had sex with me, despite being married to a cop in an obscure town away from the city. Fortunately; adulterers don't receive punishments of death by stoning here.
xingu wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:The Iranian O'Bill would have been killed in his teens for attempting to save a chance lover from being stoned to death. That's presuming he made it that far, which is doubtful. My Iranian counterpart would have demonstrated the same lack of respect for authority I did, and likely been killed long ago for it.
If you showed lack of respect in our society you did so because you knew no harm would come to you. If you lived in a system that punishes or executes harsh dissenters you would do as others do, keep your mouth shut; unless you have either a suicidal tendency or a martyr complex.
Your assumption is likely false. I didn't grow up until I was about 25. In my teens I never considered consequences, despite losing virtually every battle with authority. I thought I was as invincible as I was indeed naive, and I have the scars to prove it. My parents were good people, who did there best, but to no effect on my young self. I can only assume my idiotic revelry was anything but a product of outside forces, because no link to same can be established. Quite simply, I was just a rotten kid. To this day I have a bad tendency to react to intimidation of any kind with a diametrically opposed and even exaggerated response, frequently with neither regard for safety nor consequences. I'm far from the toughest guy around; but you can't tell me that while I'm responding to a bully of any kind. Righteous anger seems to override common sense and the flight part of my fight-or-flight mechanism whenever I feel my cause is justÂ… and consensus means zero to me when assessing right and wrong. No, the Iranian O'Bill wouldn't have stood a chance.