PS: The CCP sucks donkey dick.

I absolutely agree, the only thing worse is religions and their harmful practices and child abuse.

Which I don’t give a shit about, I’m just so fucking tired of people screaming about protecting harmful religious practices.

I asked for specifics on how children in monasteries are abused,

Really? Are you sure you really want to go there?
Taken from their parents or abandoned, and forced to a life in religious insanity and celibacy?

There is no way any sensible child care worker wouldn’t take those children away.

That’s whataboutism and unrelated. Although I agree that was horrible.

Would that be worth taking away his autonomy and will without consent?

Wow congratulations, first real argument in any response I’ve received until now.
But they are not really taking away his autonomy by closing the monastery, they are only putting an end to a harmful practice that is illegal.
Now the part about harmful may be a matter of opinion. But personally I believe religious practices are mostly harmful.

Now you are being stupid: What slaughtering is that?

The systematic control and surveillance of Tibetan monasteries by Chinese authorities represents one of the most calculated assaults on religious freedom in the modern world.

This is what it is about, and religious special pleading needs to fucking end. Especially when it’s harmful to children. You can abandon a religion, it’s not like for instance protection of nationality, gender or sex.

Adults that have been brainwashed since childhood do not decide for themselves. They do what they are conditioned to do, just like you are doing right now.
Yes the CCP does that too, I never said I like the CCP, but on religion they are mostly right. Just because it’s a bad system, it doesn’t mean they are always wrong. There are probably also good religious people.

Superstition is also a large part of Steve Jobs history, it’s what killed him.
So would he have been better off if he had not been superstitious?
Exercising religious superstition is not culture, it’s stupidity that harm both society and the individual.

Stupidity is a significant part of our history, that doesn’t mean we should preserve stupidity.

Finally someone that acknowledge that a harmful culture is not necessarily always worth preserving.👍
I sure hope China will become more politically democratic, but we must also acknowledge that China has made huge progress in improving conditions for their population these past 50 years. But I think the time for Communism has passed, or whatever it is they have in China.
On the other hand I don’t see the 1 party system as that much worse than a 2 party system. To make a real difference, it needs to be a functional democracy.
But the 1 single advantage China has over most democracies, is to NOT accept religious special pleading.

Superstition and kidnapping of children is not “culture”.

To live there the rest of their lives in celibacy?

That’s a false equivalence.

Religious superstition is not culture worth preserving.

How would you like to be taken as a 4 year old child to grow up in a monastery?

For instance that children are send there against their will.

China working to prevent indoctrination of children with superstitious religious practices that are harmful to the people practicing them.

Edit:
Funny how everybody is downvoting based on knee jerk reactions, while nobody acknowledge the harmful practices.
Always this special pleading for religion, that we would never accept in any other context.

Nice! AI to moderate bots, finally a site that doesn’t require any human interaction at all. 🤣 🤡

There is zero doubt who the inhumane fascists are in this war.

If it’s only air it just gets cloudy, not discolored.
It can be disolored from iron, and that’s not a health problem AFAIK.

I have never heard of anybody here in Denmark who has brown or cloudy tap water. That would simply not be considered acceptable.
Tap water here is always CRYSTAL clear, and generally higher quality than bottled water.

Sad for you, but just because you can’t taste it doesn’t change the fact that water actually has taste.

You are spot on. Water is absolutely not flavorless.

Fortunately I live in a place with high quality clean water, and on a warm day if I’m very thirsty, the taste of water is really really good, it clearly beats any soft drink IMO. I can even prefer it over a cold beer when I’m thirsty!
But even minor contaminants can make it taste way worse, if you live in a house with old plumbing, or if you can see buildup in the metal filter most taps have, the taste of your water is probably influenced by contamination besides Iron from the pipes. Good iron pipes are OK, but new synthetic pipes are better.

If I drink a carbonized mineral water, I can also most definitely taste the carbonation.

If the water smells like rainy weather or wet skin or in some other way smells off, it is probably contaminated. However the water can have a slight metallic smell because there are actually naturally occurring minerals in the water. BUT if your water is discolored, it is definitely contaminated, and drinking it can make you sick.
Our water is pretty high on calcium, but there is for instance also a small amount of lithium. Lower calcium water taste a bit sweeter, so natural water definitely exist that is even better than our water.

Remember always let the tap run for a short while before drinking from it.
If the water doesn’t taste good, it’s probably because it’s not good.