This is one of those issues that I will refrain from opining on directly, because I like living in a world where different cultures have different attitudes ways of living. Far be it from me to tell the Japanese how to handle their attitudes toward dress and body hair. They can hash it out amongst themselves.
I don't understand how you're reading my comment as passive-aggressive. Yes, I stated an opinion, but I thought it was straightforward and direct: that it's not my place to judge Japan's cultural values as an outsider. Do you think that the only acceptable opinion in a case like this is to take a side?
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This is one of those issues that I will refrain from opining on directly, because I like living in a world where different cultures have different attitudes ways of living. Far be it from me to tell the Japanese how to handle their attitudes toward dress and body hair. They can hash it out amongst themselves.
Yet you took the effort to write a response with no prompting...
Refusing to opine is a legitimate response.
Yes, but publicly stating so on an anonymous forum where no one asked or cared is just a passive aggressive form of stating an opinion.
I don't understand how you're reading my comment as passive-aggressive. Yes, I stated an opinion, but I thought it was straightforward and direct: that it's not my place to judge Japan's cultural values as an outsider. Do you think that the only acceptable opinion in a case like this is to take a side?