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The precedents we are setting up here are ominous on several levels simultaneously: how we view private property of individuals, due-process, jurisdiction, as w
by goatsneez 4y ago
The precedents we are setting up here are ominous on several levels simultaneously: how we view private property of individuals, due-process, jurisdiction, as well as state-state non-military war waging, reciprocity is declared unjust -> no value no rule seems not worth the attempt, etc.
Im most concerned with attitudes and precedent this will have on understanding western value system of ownership, due-process, total surveillance and total control of an individual. In my reading, these developments spell a sad future on these issues.
That such fundamental questions and core values upon which we lay the very justifications of such proposals are undone nobody seems to be bothered with (no opposition from any political party or public at large). That is what is puzzling me.
- Normille 4y agoAgreed. It's also quite concerning to me how, even amongst HN's supposedly enlightned readership, a lot of this discrimination against people just for the 'crime' of being Russian is either approved of or tacitly accepted with a hand-wavey "Well this is an inevitable consequence. Russia shouldn't have invaded Ukraine..." As if the average Russian has any more say in what their government decides to do, than the rest of us do. Swap "black", "gay", "trans" or, in another era "Jewish" for "Russian" in all of these stories and see if you still feel OK with shrugging it off.
- frozencell 4y ago> the 'crime' of being Russian Just imagine if Quebec would start to bomb Vermont.