[arnvald]

You have such choice. Some 17 million Saudi women don't.

[lzooz]

Not everything is the West's problem.

[ramphastidae]

It’s not about east vs west. It’s about basic human rights.

[bes__]

Conception of which is purely western category of thought.

[PhasmaFelis]

You would suddenly have a very clear and unyielding perspective on human rights if someone tried to take yours away.

[bes__]

Even if that was true (it isn't) it doesn't establish them as a real thing or as something that's not a western category of thought.

[PhasmaFelis]

> Even if that was true (it isn't)

So if your nation suddenly declared that men were (for example) required to cover their faces at all times and stay indoors unless escorted by a woman, you'd respect that cultural point of view and not protest?

If you're going to say that that's not a matter of violating your "human rights," but just the rights that you think people should have, please explain how those are different things.

[ramphastidae]

You have about 150 years of history to catch up on. Sure, human rights was founded in western culture, but has been adopted across the world since.