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>In this globalistic world it's worth considering that stringent policy in one area of the world can be worked around by taking advantage of lax policy in anoth

• morelisp 4y ago
  > If you want it to be illegal in the US, it should be illegal for everyone. It is reasonable for a region to decide its natural resources should benefit the people who live there above people who do not live there.
  • Eumenes 4y ago
    This 100%.
• scatterhead 4y ago
  > If it is legal in the US, it should be legal for everyone That's a strawman. No one is arguing against that. How a resource is being used by foreign corporations is an important input to policy decisions. We're at a point in today's society where the mere suggestion that nationality might be relevant is met with accusations of xenophobia. It's the same way with race or sex.
  • morelisp 4y ago
    Race exists literally only to draw unfair distinctions.
    • effingwewt 4y ago
      Then how would you explain nature being 'unfair'. Race exists due to nature and we use it to denote distinctions in our collective race. We should celebrate our differences, not pretend they don't exist, or are merely humans being derogatory to each other.
      • viciousvoxel 4y ago
        While I agree with your conclusion, unless by "nature" you mean "human nature," the statement > Race exists due to nature is absolutely false. Race is a cultural construct and has little to do with biology or national origin.
  • phendrenad2 4y ago
    For saying it's a strawman, you're doing a lot of litigation in the court of public opinion.
  • slg 4y ago
    > We're at a point in today's society where the mere suggestion that nationality might be relevant is met with accusations of xenophobia. How is the nationality relevant? Would this behavior be acceptable if the farms were owned by an Australian company? What about a publicly traded American company? What about an Arizonan billionaire? I don’t see how that would change anything. Monopolizing natural resources is bad regardless of the nationality or residency of the people profiting.
• lisasays 4y ago
  The owners are and should be irrelevant. In geopolitics (especially as applied to critical resources) -- and that's what this comes down to, really; not simply greed -- this never the case, of course. It's always relevant who the owners of are - and what kinds of influence led them to being able to put down stakes where they have. You might say it's the name of the game, in fact.
  • zekrioca 4y ago
    So is it always relevant to be xenophobic?
    • tough 4y ago
      It's always relevant to know who's trying to fuck with you
    • lisasays 4y ago
      It's not xenophobia. It's simply a matter of being aware of how things work.
    • HybridCurve 4y ago
      Aside from purely capitalistic motivations, there is such a thing as environmental warfare. Unless you want to naively assume that any foreign nation might always have the best interests of another in mind when exploiting their resources.
• scatterhead 4y ago
  A company is not separable from the regulatory environment and culture in which it's based. A British company opening a diamond mine in Botswana is a very different story from a Namibian company opening the same diamond mine.