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If you're from an ethics of divinity,
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you may appeal to religious injunctions against certain actions and behaviors
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and these may differentially restrict the behavior of men and women.
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You might believe for instance,
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that women should not prepare food when menstruating
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because it would contaminate the food. You may believe that there's--
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there are severe restrictions about who could have sex with one another
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that don't have to do with human rights and human freedom.
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It has to do with the way things should be
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because of issues of pollution and sin. Now, Western cultures, as I've said,
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are highly invested in an ethics of autonomy
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and so debates we have in our culture tend to