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I don’t want to justify zoom but I do want to point out that we shouldn’t be ok with judging a country to the point of saying they have “bad laws”. Maybe it’s b
by kfk 6y ago
I don’t want to justify zoom but I do want to point out that we shouldn’t be ok with judging a country to the point of saying they have “bad laws”. Maybe it’s because I am Italian and have seen what happens when discussions go head to head like this (II world war for instance). If we would stand by “no acceptance of bad laws”, we’d isolate those countries even more. I think it’s far better to accept that’s how they operate today BUT also engage with them in conversations that matter to us like democracy and human rights.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y ago> I think it’s far better to accept that’s how they operate today BUT also engage with them in conversations that matter to us like democracy and human rights. That's a nice idea, but China's approach is to deplatform those conversations.
- whiddershins 6y agoThat’s creeping up on moral relativism and there is a huge corpus of relevant work decrying that position.
- kfk 6y agoIf you put it like that it sounds like the alternative is moral absolutism. I take issue with absolutes because they do not promote any type of meaningful discussion. You are basically going up to a country and telling them you are right, we have seen how this approach tends to work out. I think we should always come from a place of empathy and trying to understand their position too, how else would you expect them to listen to what you have to say.