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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by wendyshu on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:46AM (#22823646)
Have morals that aren't a function of geographic location, presumably.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by _-david-_ on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:43PM (#22825174)
If you only have limited supplies its immoral to help somebody geographically closer than you than somebody further away?
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by wendyshu on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:49PM (#22826443)
Ceteris paribus I don't think many people would find that immoral, no.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by zepto on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:22PM (#22824070)
Isn’t it clearly immoral to sacrifice the interests of the people who elected you to support another nation?
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by int_19h on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:40PM (#22828772)
The morality argument here considers countries (defined as government + population) as actors, rather than governments. So the question is rather whether it's immoral for the people who elect a government to demand that it represents solely their interests to the point of sacrificing other people.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by zepto on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:21AM (#22830215)
That’s not what is happening if it is a tragedy of the commons.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by wendyshu on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#22824345)
Maybe, in the sense that it could be politically destabilizing or something like that.
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