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> If your government started doing something you don't agree with, would you renounce your citizenship and move to another country? Yes — and I even thought ab
by jwr 1y ago
> If your government started doing something you don't agree with, would you renounce your citizenship and move to another country?
Yes — and I even thought about the specific red lines that would make me do it.
> Using Iran as the salient example here, do you truly believe that some 30 year old living in Iran is responsible for a regime that was installed before they were born?
Iran is not a good example, because as many have pointed out, sanctions are often mandated by law, not imposed voluntarily.
But there are other examples, where if we follow this line of reasoning ("but regular people are not responsible!") we end up with business as usual while people get murdered. See Russia for an up-to-date example. Being a citizen of a country that murders civilians must have consequences, we can't just do business as usual. Seems unfair? I bet the people who have been murdered would consider the state of things unfair, too.