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That's the raw definition of freedom: your freedom stops where the freedom of others starts. You're free to give passports to war criminals to flee to Argentin
by xwolfi 7y ago
That's the raw definition of freedom: your freedom stops where the freedom of others starts.
You're free to give passports to war criminals to flee to Argentina, we're free to require Credit Suisse to give us their list of european clients if they want to operate in european markets.
Everyone is free in the best of worlds, long live free Switzerland.
- Kenji 7y agoNo, that is now how freedom works. What you're saying is that if there is a schoolyard bully who doesn't beat you up if you give him your sandwich every break, then you are free because you can choose whether you wanna keep your sandwich or be beaten up. Obviously that's nonsense. The pressure from other countries is obvious bullying and power play and an attack on sovereignty, especially what the EU is doing.
- afiori 7y ago> That's the raw definition of freedom: your freedom stops where the freedom of others starts. This does not really apply here; the meaning here applies to freedom as a right from an authority (being this a state or an abstract morality). The freedom Switzerland has is not constrained from that[1] but it is constrained by the responsibility they have towards their own population. [1] Ok, above the state of Switzerland there is the Swiss population. But that does not really have an impact here.