I have a wonderful memory of a friend singing stairway to heaven to my cat while I played it on guitar. Within a year my friend was gone and after another the cat too, but that song and several others bring me back to them.
saying it threatens a deeply rooted cultural tradition
If my country had a cultural tradition of stabbing orphans, it’d still be cruel and unfair, tradition or not. To quote Tim Minchin, I don’t believe just because ideas are tenacious it means that they’re worthy.
Private jets used by the ultra-rich and boiling us alive. We are the frog in the pan and climate change deniers can’t tell that the temperatures are rising, even though scientists are screaming at them.
I’m sure there’s no other way to get more money into the government. No possible way.