You are the 'dictator'.

You're telling me the US would be in the middle east if they were all democracies? (and if the people weren't crazy enough to elect islamists)

True, a sane population is a requisite too i guess.

 

Your link says nothing relevant.

 

Well, it's not really a tolerance thing. See the link I posted to frodly.

 

Would you at least concede that it would be easier for a gay man to live outside of prison in Iran if he agreed to have a sex change?

The point is that homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment or worse, whereas gender reassignment is legal. It's part of why it happens so much there.

 

Well, we subverted a democratically elected leader in Iran just for the sake of oil interests.

We've done similar things to democratic governments in Central and South America as well.

 

Oh.. I didn't know about iran, which leader? I knew about latin america though.. But somehow, I feel that it has changed. Come to think of it, why would it have? I feel as if I've been a tad naive.. one step closer I guess.

 

Mossadegh was a guy that both the US and the UK wanted out of power because he nationalized oil interests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh

 

What do sex changes and the Middle East have to do with ...know what...forget it.

 

Jesus.. Good going, anglos. A democratic Iran with a constitutional monarchy? My god, that would have been undescribably neat. and now we have a soon to be nuclear iranian theocracy. This.. really lowered my opinion of the UK and US quite a bit.

 

it was not the people who kept claiming that an airplane can not be invented, that invented the air plane. but it has been invented. and so despite your pesimism, I will keep trying.

 

You have to invent a whole new kind of human for it to work, or leave it to robots or something. But now humans, they will corrupt it.