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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by shard972 on Sunday September 15, 2019 @08:55PM (#20980352)
Again you have your individualist lens on and you are judging the situation purely based on that moral framework.
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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by kelnos on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:56AM (#20995101)
I don't think I am.

The idea of prioritizing collective good means that it's ok to sacrifice one (or more) people if even more people will benefit from that action by a certain threshold amount.

This... isn't that. Arresting this guy won't help or save a bunch of people. The government just wants revenge for his financial crimes, and they're unethically using his kids to try to get it.

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