The Dangers of Cultural Harm

BBC reports on a case for woman who's been jailed for six years in Myanmar, because she had an only fans account which showed pictures of herself. The Burmese authorities described it as cultural harm and have incarcerated her. And this is the worry once you start to stretch these terms of what counts as harmful, you're creating a weapon. It might lead to people that you would think of as allies or as good people being jailed. Yeah. There are examples in China too where I mean the doctors who blew the whistle when COVID-19 emerged were rounded up and imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for engaging in antisocial behavior. Do you think lawlessness is really the bar we should set