When we hosted the Cup in Germany for the first time in 1974, the infamous
§ 175 StGB had already had most of its teeth removed by the reforms of 1969 und 1973. At that time, it retained provisions against homosexual prostitution, exploiting a relationship of dependency, and it contained a higher age of consent (18 instead of 14) for homosexual acts than for heterosexual ones. By the second time, in 2006, the law seemed like ancient history, but wasn't (it was finally guttered when the Bundestag regulated sexual acts with minors in 1994).
Much as I detest FIFA and its boss, Infantino has a point saying The West (T.M.) shouldn't carry its nose too high re. the regulation of consenting adults' sex lives (for the believers among us,
Humane Vitae is still the moral standard for 1.4 billion Catholics on this world), the regular occurrence of expolitative labor contracts (just ask Romanian truck drivers) and women's rights. As a nice illustration, Section 1356 of the German Civil Code stipulated, between 1957 and 1977 (!), that within marriage, the wife was allowed to work as long is it did not "interfere with her marital and household obligations"; the husband had the right to terminate her work contract unilaterally to make her take these obligations seriously. And until 25 years ago this May, rape within marriage wasn't a crime in Germany. It wasn't even a thing, legally.
So yeah, the point of not watching the World Cup is FIFA's greed and unabashed corruption much more than Qatar's morals. If I, as your plain vanilla moderate-lefty, sandal-waring tree hugger only recognize as The World those societies that conform to my standards, The World becomes small indeed. Even if I am generous and just use the UN Declaration of Human Rights.