• enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      in fact aceh wants to separate from indonesia. but the 2004 tsunami ruined the movement and they have to rely on the central government and foreign help to fix things. they were later given autonomus privilege from the central government, which is why aceh can have rather special laws compared to the rest of the country.

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    The couple was among six people flogged for breaking the Islamic code, including a sharia police officer and his female partner, who were caught in close proximity in a private place. That couple received 23 strikes each.

    What the hell does this mean? Some guy was “in close proximity” with his wife in private?

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      police officer and his female partner

      I’m betting the correct interpretation of this phrase is that the female is his POLICE partner, not romantic.

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      Just a guess… but that they’re not actually married.

      edit: yeah, they weren’t actually married. also they drank booze.

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        No. That logical fallacy is completely misunderstood and posted everywhere. It only occurs when you continue to shift the goalposts. If someone makes a claim and defends it continuously, then the fallacy does not occur.

        “No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one modifies a prior claim in response to a counterexample by asserting the counterexample is excluded by definition.[1][2][3] Rather than admitting error or providing evidence to disprove the counterexample, the original claim is changed by using a non-substantive modifier such as “true”, “pure”, “genuine”, “authentic”, “real”, or other similar terms.[4][2]”

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman