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It is probably better to start keeping public lists of surprising incidents, analogously to the way lawyers would summarize case precedent, but applied to the e
by whatshisface 2y ago
It is probably better to start keeping public lists of surprising incidents, analogously to the way lawyers would summarize case precedent, but applied to the extralegal system. It can be difficult to find old news articles sometimes.
- bilbo0s 2y agoUm. I don’t know that I would do that if I was a scientist right now.
- gopher_space 2y agoWe have reached the point where it’s either something like this or leave the country.
- collingreen 2y agoBeing someone who makes a list like this might be the reason you get kicked out of the country (or worse?) if there is an authoritarian regime hurting people in order to silence critics.
- gopher_space 2y agoRight. So you're either going to make a stand and risk getting arrested (Just like Thoreau!) or you're going to move somewhere this isn't happening. Keep in mind we're talking about people with a moral framework that reduces the situation to these two choices. They'd need to abandon their sense of morality to maintain the status quo.
- antifa 2y agoA lot of people live in countries that won't deport someone to the US for documenting a list of crimes against humanity performed by the US government.