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The moral duty of a citizen is to sabotage their country when it becomes immoral.
by praptak 8mo ago
The moral duty of a citizen is to sabotage their country when it becomes immoral.
- dennis_jeeves2 8mo agoNearly every country would be 'sabotaged' then - and rightfully so. ALL gvts are a sophisticated manifestation of the more lowly protection racket run by the mafia. i.e 'We protect you from harm by the other mafia'.
- computably 8mo agoValue judgments aside, organized crime often does arise in a self-organizing way from marginalized groups. Anyways, it all boils down to a simple fact: pacifism can't enforce itself.
- rayiner 8mo agoWho decides what’s moral in a democracy? You?
- thunderfork 8mo agoHuman beings all and each have the agency to make this choice for themselves.
- rayiner 8mo agoSo individuals have a “duty … to sabotage their country when it becomes immoral” according to individually-defined standards of morality? That seems like an unworkable way to run any society with more than a few people.
- praptak 8mo agoIn practice the opposite is true. There's not enough people willing to sabotage countries like 1933 Germany or Putin's Russia.