It is interesting to compare how extreme moral/religious/cultural/national obsessions bring about situations that are difficult for others to fathom, or simply to gape/laugh/agonise over in disbelief. One can put oneself in the place of people from the USA, the UK, China, Japan, Pakistan each looking at some curious event/behaviour in one of the other countries - how it is shaped has a local absurdity built into it, that is it is not absurd to those living in the place but absurd to everyone else.