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Yes. If they launch a missile, send a missile back.
by flappyeagle 4y ago
Yes. If they launch a missile, send a missile back.
- vkou 4y agoAnd if they round up and arrest political and religious dissidents, we should do the same? We can't lose the repression arms race to China, after all... Firing a missile is an external action. This is not an external question, this is a question of domestic information policy. It's hypocritical for a nation championing free speech to have a restrictive domestic information policy.
- flappyeagle 4y agoEconomic sanctions is an external action. Tariffs are a thing that exist. It's not by any means "repression", so please don't make the argument lame by taking it there.
- vkou 4y agoI'm pretty sure you were the one who took the argument into this direction, by equating banning a chat app to launching missiles - waging war. I'm not asking us to hold ourselves to China's standards - that's the lowest bar in the universe. I'm asking us to hold ourselves to our own standards.
- flappyeagle 4y agoWar is not repression. It is unfortunate but often the only sensible approach when the other party is aggressor. It’s not oppression to respond in kind. It is common sense.
- vkou 4y ago> It is unfortunate but often the only sensible approach when the other party is aggressor. How exactly is China banning an app in its domestic market aggression? You have a very strange definition of aggression.