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Why? It would create a very useful precedent.

• adrianmsmith 5y ago
  The precedent would be that it’s ok for the government to usurp your assets if they choose to. I don’t think that’s a good precedent.
  • trasz 5y ago
    In response to a war or genocide. It’s a good precedent; it’s not that different from the usual economic sanctions.
    • chii 5y ago
      i would be against usurpment - freezing is the most that should be allowed. Otherwise, it's too easy to justify theft, and next time it might not be some despotic dictator, but citizens.
      • trasz 5y ago
        So? It’s citizens’ responsibility to get rid of dictators. It’s also their shared responsibility for what their country is doing.
        • chii 5y ago
          A weapon should not be judged on what the most good it could do, but on what the most evil it could accomplish.
• antifa 5y ago
  It might look good on paper to do this to Russia, but I think it's the first domino on a path to widespread international kleptocracy.
  • vba616 5y ago
    I want to savor a comment by "antifa" warning that we are on a slippery slope to the breakdown of property rights worldwide. . . . You know what ELSE could be the first domino on a path to widespread international kleptocracy? Stealing whole countries with impunity. Well not the first domino. One of the middle dominoes.