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>There may be some economic consequences to such sanctions, given Russia’s significant role in world energy markets. But that’s a price we should be willing to
by btheshoe 5y ago
>There may be some economic consequences to such sanctions, given Russia’s significant role in world energy markets. But that’s a price we should be willing to pay to take a stand on the side of freedom.
What if I'm not though. Seems hard to justify taking on personal sacrifice for a bunch of people half a world away who I'll never know in a manner whose benefits are at best dubious.
- oneoff786 5y agoThen tough. You live in a society. Your individual wants don’t always take top priority.
- btheshoe 5y agoDo we really though? Does an international society really exist? Personally, I don't feel much of an obligation to people a hundred miles away, much less people on the other side of the Earth, in a whole different country
- oneoff786 5y agoI didn’t say international society. I meant the one you live in. Which is presumably the US.
- polski-g 5y agoThen we should put sanctions up for a referendum before they're enacted.
- oneoff786 5y agoDelegating this decision making to elected leaders is the entire premise of democracy.