Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood

Re:Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood by dvt on Sunday September 04, 2016 @03:18AM (#12423210)

I'm not sure who's more strategic, but here we are talking about Socrates 2500 years after he drank hemlock ;)

> I'm also not sure I agree that living in a country means you morally take responsibility for all its ills.

You're attacking a strawman here, that's a very strong position. I just said it hurts his credibility and my analogy was that eating meat while preaching vegetarianism is suspect.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood by tanderson92 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @03:31AM (#12423250)

I guess that's where we diverge. I don't see working against, in this example, imperialism while living in an imperialistic state to be akin to preaching vegetarianism while eating meat. You don't have the same choice you do with meat, to simultaneously (1) live in a free society (2) work against imperialism.

Eating meat, in my "strawman" is acceptance, or rationalization, of the evil once one is aware.

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