I dont mean places that are like ragingly anticommunist (which is most places I think), but they have like appalling social issues. Say like UAE or any of the Gulf states that use slave labor and indentured servitude on a mass scale. Like would you say visiting dubai or doha is morally questionable? A friend is offering to visit Muscat cuz there are cheap flights but I dont know if I should. Or are there ways I can ameliorate my staying there, like maybe giving money to some orgs or something. Idk what do you think
Depends why.
I guess this might be a hot take but I find travel to be less enriching and edifying than many make it out to be. Burning enough fossil fuel to heat 5 homes for a year, so your personal fat ass can see things and observe other cultures seems silly and wasteful to me. I know people also travel to see friends and family, but it still strikes me as a bit vain. I get the sense many people are traveling to notch off that they got there and that bothers me a lot. If the technology or climate situation were better I’d feel a bit differently, I suppose. And I judge people the about same for a pleasure trip to Dubai as a pleasure trip to London.