After reading this what @cazzie wrote, it made me even more set in my notion. I mean: here’s a place where you could get your hands chopped off, or 20 years in prison, or some other horrible penance for a social sin, and yet they have aggressive prostitutes.
Seems like some evil Alice-in-Wonderland universe, where all sorts of baubles and indulgences are thrown your way, but if you actually take any such indulgences, you risk losing your freedom.
I’ve read of people who landed there with a joint in their pocket, only to end up in prison for 20 years.
Yes I know, it’s their country, their laws, so don’t fly there ready to violate such laws; but realistically: what if every country on earth had such laws? Would that make it wrong to violate the laws everywhere on earth then?
It really does sound like a twisted version of Las Vegas, but unlike Las Vegas, you gamble on your very freedom to be there.
It reminds me of the original Battlestar Galactica movie from 1978. Where there was this luxurious resort/casino with all sorts of sin-laden customers pouring in and having fun, meanwhile, if they happen to go in the wrong elevator, watch out… the whole purpose of the casino resort was to be a honeypot that attracted humans to it for the purposes of then taking their lives and bodies away and turning them into food and energy.
And what kind of evil culture would jail a person 20 years for a joint?
Alabama of the 1980s and the United Arab Emirates of the 2000s