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Is it better for 5 people to die and 5 people to have all of the UN Human Rights, or for 5 to be slaves and 5 to be subjects of a despot? There's no wholly goo
by coryrc 5y ago
Is it better for 5 people to die and 5 people to have all of the UN Human Rights, or for 5 to be slaves and 5 to be subjects of a despot?
There's no wholly good answer here. There's a valid argument for both; you're making the latter, if I may be so presumptuous.
- bllguo 5y agowhat a false dichotomy. 1. why does the US get to make this choice for others, and 2. the actual outcomes are nothing like this, name the countries the US destabilized that are now bastions of human rights. the track record is horrendous and the only reason we have not been rightfully forbidden from meddling is brute force.
- coryrc 5y agoFor a while, women in Afghanistan could be educated and visible in public again, like 70 years ago. If you choose not to intervene, you have still made a choice. "Never Again", yet Rwandan genocide, Serbian massacre, Uyghurs in camps, Darfur, Syria, Daesh, Qatari slaves... whether you intervene or not people will suffer.