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> that is pretty serious violation of human rights I don’t think it’s that hyperbolic. But I agree that the existence of debts shouldn’t invalidate one’s right
by JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
> that is pretty serious violation of human rights
I don’t think it’s that hyperbolic. But I agree that the existence of debts shouldn’t invalidate one’s right to a passport.
(The counter argument is that passports are a privilege and citizenship a bundle of privileges and duties. Why should the country have the burden of passporting someone abroad who as abandoned it.)
- throwuttfj 7mo agoEducation is also a privilege. And universities should have no power to block people from leaving a country. It is like Emirates preventing people to go home, because of unpaid speeding tickets. Or Qatar confiscating passports of Indian workers.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> universities should have no power to block people from leaving a country They don’t.
- throwuttfj 7mo agoThey do, state owned education
- Paracompact 7mo agohttps://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country." Passports shouldn't be a privilege, and violation of the universal declaration of human rights is pretty serious.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> violation of the universal declaration of human rights is pretty serious No, it isn’t. It isn’t even legally binding. (And obviously couldn’t be. It would invalidate incarceration and conscription, for example.)
- Jensson 7mo agoPeople don't have that right when they are criminals, prisoners don't get to leave their country etc and this is essentially that.