I beg for your patience as I share those two memories, very different from each other, but that share a tiny thread. '
Many years ago, I read an opinion piece by a Muslim who said the morality in his country was higher than in ours. Their women were more virtuous than ours.
I thought about that article for a long time and came to decide that morality under the threat of stoning isn't that moral. It is legislated morality enforced by fear. Yes, we may be more decadent in the west, but....