Re:Blasphemy laws are an offense against free speech, and th...
by acqq on Friday May 12, 2017 @06:21PM
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North Korea offered peace many times. It's the U.S that doesn't want to accept it. See my other post. The U.S. goal simply isn't to reduce the chance of a war and it's even less to improve the state of the people there (or anywhere actually). "Bringing democracy" when the U.S. politicians say it always mean something else as it would be naively expected. Best observed on recent Iraq and Syria examples.
The U.S has a huge history of the direct organization of toppling the regimes only on the principle "they don't do what we want them to do." Therefore, Saudi Arabia, one of the most intolerant places on the Earth "are the friends" and the dictators are somewhere else. And these "friends" thanks to that "friendly" support magnificently exported their mind-boggling intolerance all around the world. And some circles bend over backwards to teach us that "it's good so."
Re:Blasphemy laws are an offense against free speech, and th...
by stale2002 on Friday May 12, 2017 @07:38PM
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I don't care if NK has offered peace or not. I care that they send their own people to death camps.
If I could topple NK overnight and get rid of the death camps I would do so.
My opinion on Saudi Arabia is the same. That dictatorship should be toppled as well, hopefully by their own population.
The problem, though, is that when you go around toppling regimes, millions end up dead, when before only 10s of thousands were being killed by the secret police.
So yes, if I could wave a magic wand and give human rights to the entire North Korean population, with no negative side effects, I'd do it.
But we don't have that magic wand, and we have to balance the good that we'd be doing by fixing North Korea, with the bad that'd be done through the millions that would end up dead.