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You give our word not to flee. For some of us the dishonor for breaking our word is worse than being jailed unjustly. Besides, liberal freeing society collapse
by dnskxbzj 7y ago
You give our word not to flee. For some of us the dishonor for breaking our word is worse than being jailed unjustly.
Besides, liberal freeing society collapses if we cannot or will not hold people to their word, replaced by totalitarianism.
- keiferski 7y agoAnd what happens when the government doesn’t stick to their word? Nothing. Asymmetrical power relationships are complicated.
- dnskxbzj 7y agoSo? My honor, like my privacy, is valuable to me without having to attach to it a material worth. My honor is refusing to live a lie and therefore denying myself. I would much rather die knowing I lived like Havel, then his infamous grocer. (In case you don’t know Havel, he’s one of the thousands of bright lights who refused to live a comfortable lie in the Eastern bloc and took down an empire. The government is more scared of honorable men, then men who would flee)
- totalZero 7y agoThe government loses power when it lies, unless it can convert its lie into the truth.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y ago> For some of us the dishonor for breaking our word is worse than being jailed unjustly. I would guess the set of such people is very nearly disjoint with the set of people who actually have been jailed unjustly. With perhaps the exception of idealistic dissidents who have been jailed for the cause.