Three men were arrested Saturday after the gang rape of a Spanish tourist on a motorbike trip through India's remote east with her husband, local media reports said.
But… They’re not. And that’s clear to see. So it rests upon everyone else to either just watch it happen and point out that it’s not their problem and that India should handle it on their own, or to actually do the things that India refuses to.
Japan was doing nothing about all their whale killing, so the rest of the world handled it. That’s how this shit works.
Designate India as an “unsafe” tourist destination and suggest people travel elsewhere instead. Advise businesses to avoid sending staff there for any reason and recommend (not mandate) that they look at reducing trade and presence there.
I’m no economist, so I have no idea how blunt that instrument is or how it would affect domestic or Indian economies, but it’s an idea…
“Foreigners, especially women traveling alone or in small groups, are occasionally affected by violent, including sexual, attacks, including in tourist centers. Drugs or knockout drops are sometimes administered through drinks.”
Isn’t that essentially what articles like this are? They’re spreading awareness of the dangers. Without getting into international politics, which is a murky thing
I’m not the one to make those decisions. But I can assure you that doing nothing isn’t how it’s supposed to be handled. Just like how I may not know how to properly exit a flying airplane, but I know enough to understand that doing so without a parachute is the wrong way to do it.
It’s easy for the rest of the world to do something about Japan’s whale killing. You send your ships out into the international waters where it was happening to protect the whales. (And, for what it’s worth, “the rest of the world” didn’t do all that much about it. Independent organisations did so in a legally grey act of essentially vigilantism.)
It’s much, much harder to do something about what’s happening within a country’s own territorial boundaries.
“Something should be done about this!”
Said the world, while idly doing nothing and biding their time until the next time they get to say:
“Something should have been done about this!”
India should be doing something about this. Why should the rest of the world be the ones to solve everyone else’s shit all the time?
But… They’re not. And that’s clear to see. So it rests upon everyone else to either just watch it happen and point out that it’s not their problem and that India should handle it on their own, or to actually do the things that India refuses to.
Japan was doing nothing about all their whale killing, so the rest of the world handled it. That’s how this shit works.
What measures would you propose the rest of the world to take?
Designate India as an “unsafe” tourist destination and suggest people travel elsewhere instead. Advise businesses to avoid sending staff there for any reason and recommend (not mandate) that they look at reducing trade and presence there.
I’m no economist, so I have no idea how blunt that instrument is or how it would affect domestic or Indian economies, but it’s an idea…
Can’t speak for other countries, but Germany explicitly warns about the danger of sexual violence: Ausländer, insbesondere allein oder in kleinen Gruppen reisende Frauen, sind vereinzelt von gewaltsamen, auch sexuellen Übergriffen betroffen, auch in Touristenzentren. Dazu werden teilweise Drogen oder K.-o.-Tropfen über Getränke verabreicht.
“Foreigners, especially women traveling alone or in small groups, are occasionally affected by violent, including sexual, attacks, including in tourist centers. Drugs or knockout drops are sometimes administered through drinks.”
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Isn’t that essentially what articles like this are? They’re spreading awareness of the dangers. Without getting into international politics, which is a murky thing
I’m not the one to make those decisions. But I can assure you that doing nothing isn’t how it’s supposed to be handled. Just like how I may not know how to properly exit a flying airplane, but I know enough to understand that doing so without a parachute is the wrong way to do it.
I’m doing my part by never going to that shit hole.
It’s easy for the rest of the world to do something about Japan’s whale killing. You send your ships out into the international waters where it was happening to protect the whales. (And, for what it’s worth, “the rest of the world” didn’t do all that much about it. Independent organisations did so in a legally grey act of essentially vigilantism.)
It’s much, much harder to do something about what’s happening within a country’s own territorial boundaries.