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Yet another comment saying Assange got what was coming. Always the same argument : He knew so he should not have. Imagine applying the same logic elsewhere : "
by cassepipe 6y ago
Yet another comment saying Assange got what was coming.
Always the same argument : He knew so he should not have. Imagine applying the same logic elsewhere :
"Well people went on that strike but they knew that state/company would send the army and shoot at them so they got what was coming"
I could make up a thousand more like that. This is a terrible justification of the order of things.
- bitexploder 6y agoI am not justifying anything. I explicitly said I don't think it resembles any sort of "justice", but I also think that you should understand the risks you are undertaking by thumbing your nose at the political power structures so directly. It does not exist on that dimension of judgment for me. It's like going into space. If your rocket explodes and kills you, you don't deserve it any more than anyone else, but you understand that is a risk. It doesn't make it right or wrong, it is just a force that exists and will try to kill you.
- cassepipe 6y agoYou are just naturalising Power at that point. Power is not some natural force although it tries to acquire its regularity and omniprésence. And although it tries to protect itself from human variability, it relies on human actions. Naturalising is the oldest known way of justifying an order of things. I am ready to believe this is not your intention but that does not mean that's not what you are doing. Still it leaves me with a question : What is your intention beyond stating that "After sun comes rain" or "Boys will be boys"? How do you contribute to the discussion from the outer space point of view from where all seem to look as the result of unavoidable forces?