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If I blockade you in your house, is that failure to aid? Or something else? Sanctions occur via commission, not omission. They’re not a failure to render aid or
by jpster 8mo ago
If I blockade you in your house, is that failure to aid? Or something else? Sanctions occur via commission, not omission. They’re not a failure to render aid or to be maximally charitable. They’re active harm.
- s1artibartfast 8mo agoBlockade and sanctions are entirely different. Sanctions are omission, blockade is comission. These words are currently being conflated.
- jpster 8mo ago> International sanctions are restrictions on international transactions imposed by governments in pursuit of foreign policy objectives. Imposing a restriction where one did not previously exist is quite obviously a commission.
- s1artibartfast 8mo agoIf I decide to stop buying bread from the baker in boycott, is that a commission? It is certainly a change of state, but the status quo does not entitle ongoing purchases. This is a sanction. I can also extend this boycott to anyone else who shops at the baker. That still is not a commission. It is a refusal to interact. A blockade is different. It is a threat to use force for disobedience. IF I threaten to beat other who willingly shop at the baker.
- jpster 8mo agoDisagree