Quote Originally Posted by Peegee View Post
psy y u so meen. but you said to relax so I'll just tell iceglow 'Fighting evil by moonlight / Winning love by daylight...'

as for the topic itself, America freed its slaves (13th commandment) about 20 years before Germany introduced the world's first universal health care system under Bismarck.

It's been five billion years and America still doesn't have universal health care because 'dem commies be ter jer' or some other such reason. My point is that no country is perfect and pointing fingers at Finland ignores the relatively grotesque foolishness in one's country.

I'm from Canada where gay marriage was only legally recognised in 2005. Oh wait usa...but the point is that netherland, spain...um...crap I forget. belgium chocolates? yeah that. They beat canada in legislating 'federal' laws recognising it.

I like picking on usa.
You're comparing apples to tacos here. Do you really think it's okay to say the United States struggles to give equal rights to all of its citizens is worse than Finland's failure to protect the rights of it's citizens to have an appropriate expectation of justice if they're beaten and raped? A law intended to to further protect survivors of rape is being used against survivors in favor of perpetrators. We generally call that a miscarriage of justice. But your argument in favor of this is the fact that other countries have or have had archaic, unjust laws? Doing the right thing, punishing people who engage in violence, shouldn't be predicated on what's allowable elsewhere. C'mon PG. you're better than that.