... Of dicks, moral responsibility and Compassion...

I was in downtown LA... and needed to use a restroom... but there were not public place that I could have turned... and the cafes and restaurants had signs "restrooms for customers only..." and they were locked...
So maybe Paris, the City of Lights... has a point... but... that point has a built in gender bias...

Eco-friendly open-air urinals cause uto use proar in Paris...

An attempt by officials in Paris to tackle public urination by installing open-air urinals, or "uritrottoirs," has outraged some residents of the French capital.

The new urinals, housed in flower boxes, aren't subtle -- they're fully exposed on street corners, painted bright red, and have nearby signs advertising their presence.

City officials have installed four open-air urinals, or "uritrottoirs."
Men holding his dick and exposing himself... But what about the women... How will they use the new urinals...? 
Or maybe... the women do not offend by urinating in the public... So they do not need the urinals...
Men offend and they are rewarded... That's what patriarchy is all about... cater to the dicks of the offenders... and ignore the women and their existence...

One urinal, located near the Notre Dame cathedral, overlooks the River Seine.
The new urinals, in the City of the Enlightenment... declare that men offend by urinating in the public and they get rewarded... with flower pot urinals...

The urinals claim to be eco-friendly, as they turn waste into compost for parks and gardens ... but they discriminate against women...

Ariel Weil, mayor of the 4th district of Paris, tweeted in defense of the urinals on Monday, calling them "an invention of genius." Four have been installed so far, with a fifth being planned.

Paris isn't the first European city to install outdoor urinals. Amsterdam has had them for years, and cities in Belgium and Australia have also trialed them.

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"Comfort Women..." REALLY?

People in South Korea and Taiwan unveiled monuments and staged protests on Tuesday to mark Japan's wartime use of "comfort women", a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels.

  South Koreans protest ...                                 Taiwanese too...

In South Korea, a new monument was unveiled as part of its first "Memorial Day for Japanese Forces' Comfort Women Victims," which threatens to exacerbate a sensitive diplomatic issue with Japan, South Korea's neighbour and a key ally of the United States in efforts to contain North Korea.

 A statue of a teenage girl — the original monument to former "comfort women" who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II — sits in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.

Question...

Why Japan refuses to acknowledge that they abused the women for the convenience of male dicks... ?
I assume male dicks are more important than human compassion and admitting a wrong... I assume Japan will not admit moral responsibility since it will open the doors for legal liability and financial compensation.... So the better option for regimes and autocrats and oligarchs and plutocrats and rulers in Russia and China and North Korea and Japan and the rest is to deny the wrong doing and refuse to accept  responsibility...
Accepting responsibility open the doors to legal liability and compensation...
For these rulers, the 1%... money is more important than morality... and the dick of their soldiers is worth more than the pain of 1000s of women...
Japan's behaviour is very similar to other despotic-democracies like Turkey's Erdogan... Turkey denies the genocide of Armenians and refuses to accept responsibility... after the acceptance will follow with financial responsibility and the return of lands which they stole from the Armenians...
Money dictates morality...
Money rules for the 1%... Be it in the US or in Russia or Japan or Turkey...

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...And on a compassionate note...

The tires of the trailer failed and the wires rubbing on the asphalt created sparks which eventually led to brush fires...

The Carr Fire ignited on July 23 near Redding after a trailer got a flat tire and its rim scraped the asphalt. The sparks that shot out from that minor incident started what is now the eighth-largest wildfire in state history.

The fire blazed a fiery path along Highway 299, lighting up dry brush and residential areas, and killing at least seven people.

When Redding resident Rachel Pilli read about the tire failure, she decided to reach out to the trailer's owners with a message of compassion. She posted a message on social media asking if anyone else wants to show their support. About 100 letters poured in -- and they're still coming.

A community devastated by a deadly wildfire in Northern California has a message for the couple whose trailer started the blaze: It's not your fault.

 The Carr Fire started on July 23 and has destroyed more than 1,000 homes, Cal Fire says.  (City of Redding, California )

 

Accidents do happen... and despitr the 

hardship and ashes and deaths... people reached out with messages of compassion...
The trailer owners were surely comforted with the neighbourly compassion...
Love always trumps hate...