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The taliban actually have a fascinatingly (philosophically) based law where it’s illegal to photograph a living thing. I’m not sure about the reason. Maybe derived from the not being okay to depict Mohammed. But I kind of dig the concept especially for living things that can’t consent to be captured in images

> have a fascinatingly (philosophically) based law

Is neither fascinating nor philosophically based. It's a long-running islamic tradition that gets broken and bent all the time. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

both of my claims were subjective and thus not really refutable. As an outsider I think it is interesting, too. And think the flexibility is similar to many laws akin to what we have in the US via prosecutorial discretion

I should’ve included a source to where I read about it initially and that’s below

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-media-moralit...

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