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> Almost every single Chinese citizen I've spoken to is for this project. Obviously. The people who aren't would be crazy to confide in you. > Why not let the
by PavlovsCat 8y ago
> Almost every single Chinese citizen I've spoken to is for this project.
Obviously. The people who aren't would be crazy to confide in you.
> Why not let them decide what they want for their country
So you would have been okay with Hitler "just" murdering Jews, not starting a war, as long as most Germans would have been for it? How come we think of it as Jews and others having been murdered, instead of Germans just doing something "to themselves"? Or hey, even during the war, wasn't that just Europeans doing something? Why not simply go all the way, to carbon-based life forms, or simply declaring everything the same, because "it's all just physics and chemistry"?
And whose country was Germany during that time, would you say -- that of the Nazis and their supporters, or the Germans in exile and in resistance, the ones in graves?
Just calling something "ideals" (because you don't dare to acknowledge the principles, while you reap their fruits no less) and "outrage", that's simply nothing but rich, considering your being "outraged" over the ideal of non-intervention, of "not judging" or "having to live without Google services" (just wow).
> You're not the one who has to live without dozens of Google services that only have shitty alternatives, they are.
So you do understand the logic, you simply only apply it to petty things, not murder.
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma...
"Murder is not government". Now there's a thought. By the same token, looking away is not being a citizen.
Neither you, nor the people you have spoken to, got to taste the wrong end of the gun of totalitarianism. If you think only of yourself, nobody should think of you.