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It's group guilt and punishment, a dehumanizing practice that ignores personal circumstances and is OK with collateral damage. A blunt tool.
by visarga 5y ago
It's group guilt and punishment, a dehumanizing practice that ignores personal circumstances and is OK with collateral damage. A blunt tool.
- frostburg 5y agoWhat would you suggest? Nothing, since economic sanctions have the same issue? "Humane" poisonings of involved politicians using exotic isotopes and/or nerve agents? Airstrikes and betting on Putin folding?
- intricatedetail 5y agoSuch tyranny exist because people allow it. Do you think nations should not bear responsibility for _their_ governments?
- ceilingcorner 5y agoBy that logic, millions of people from dozens of countries in the Middle East and Africa should be punished for the actions of their government. Exactly how does that help anyone?
- Dylan16807 5y agoDo you also think it's a problem to fine companies when they do bad things?
- ceilingcorner 5y agoSo we should ban all flights from certain countries in Africa and the Middle East because they have authoritarian governments? And we should do so until the people there violently overthrow their government? Opinions like this only seem to come from Westerners who will never have to face the consequences of such actions. Geopolitics is complicated and as my original comment said, regular people are usually the ones getting hurt.
- Dylan16807 5y agoI didn't say this particular action was justified, I just think the "collective punishment" reason not to do it is a terrible idea that would make it impossible to take action against any organization ever. It's really a stretch to call something like this collective punishment. If a government does anything there are regular people that are going to get hurt, but that's not a reason to stop governing.