> Military forces with occupational capacity are concerned with counter-force, not counter-value.
Indeed, that's why the french nuclear doctrine is counter-value.
It's all a matter of taste of course, but it's hard to take the statement that Britain go the best cheese in the world seriously. If we only look at Europe: France, Italy, Switzerland are a lot more famous for their cheeses than Britain.
The fact that almost all British cheeses are pasteurized is a clear indication that having great cheeses is not part of the British mainstream culture. That being said, there is also some high quality cheeses in Britain, but in my opinion, a lot less than in those other europeans country, by production amount and number of cheese type.
There is no limit to satire , there is only limit in the head of uneducated people.
The debate need to be shut before it's even opened. You should not have to censure yourself (when doing satire) because you are scared of offending people. Otherwise , any group can claim to be offended by anything , and you give them power on you. What if vegetarian decide it's offensive to eat meat ? What if I decide that eggplant are offensive ?
What if I decide it's offensive to be offended ?
There is no end to this. Let's limit freedom of speech at the hate speech mark and allow the rest , legally and in practice.
Well you can't expect most people of English heritage to understand the particular of french political correctness.
The gap is just to huge , the irreverence of french satirical newspaper is beyond most of the english word capacity to accept.
Do UK/US people do even like really dark humour anyway ?
Regardless or who is right or wrong in that case it's interesting that the US moral standard are being applied all over the internet. I mean if the main part of github community was from say Italy where there is less and a quite different social justice context we would not have this debate.
The SJW think differently all over the world , but we only apply Californian value . Same for nudity on Facebook for exemple .
As the internet grow more centralised , mostly over US based entities i'm sad to see different culture get dissolve into the US mold.
If the german try to push the French in the futur a bit to openly they will be blood on the wall. The ghost of ww2 is still there, we (the french) will go the absolute extreme measure if it look like we are threaten by germany (nukes + French Far Right = not good).
So all of this need to be hidden to the public eye. And usually it is . But greece did not get that decency.
Rape:
U.S. 27.3
UK (England and Wales) 28.8
Australia 88.4
Sweden 63.5
Those stats are biased .
Sweden classification for rape is really different (Lots of things that are called sexual assault in most of the western word is call rape in Sweden )
Australia Statistics come mostly from the aboriginal community , which have a lot of problem , live almost segregated and does bot really can be classified as a western culture.
So say if someone is using a nail file would you be offended ? What about whashing hands ? Realy something that does not smell or make noise , what's the problem ? Look away and stop projecting your own programming on other people.
It's funny , I am a native french speaker married to an australian so my english start to be quit all right. What is funny is that "there, their, they're" or "its, it's" mistakes are painful to me, but at the same time I am unable to write 3 sentences in french whith no mistake. I probably made a few mistake in this post but remember english is EASY (at least from a european background). I am ashamed of my own french writting , I tried (not to hard) to fix it with very limited success , when I what kind of easy stupid common English mistake I'm really torn between empathy and disgusts.