Re:Russian tanks in Ukraine are sprouting cages
by readthenotes1 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:31PM
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There's a lot of pushback on your answer to my question already and I'm going to add my own:
I think you should travel more, if possible. I believe you will see significant differences in the way that national governments treat their people in different regions of the earth.
In some places, you cannot insult government members. In some countries, you cannot insult a religious figure. In some countries, you cannot do the same things that other people do because of your race, sex, or sexual orientation. By "cannot" , I mean "face execution or life imprisonment".
And that is only based upon what I know going on currently. If you go back historically, things do get much more diverse.
Predicting a response that these sorts of things only happen in extreme countries, my reply is that if there were no national borders other than the atmosphere, the leaders of that region would be the most ruthless and ambitious on the planet. I do not have fond hopes that they would somehow also be simultaneously the most compassionate and altruistic.
Most great men are not good men.
Or as someone put it: Power does not corrupt--it reveals.
I think you should travel more, if possible. I believe you will see significant differences in the way that national governments treat their people in different regions of the earth.
In some places, you cannot insult government members. In some countries, you cannot insult a religious figure. In some countries, you cannot do the same things that other people do because of your race, sex, or sexual orientation. By "cannot" , I mean "face execution or life imprisonment".
And that is only based upon what I know going on currently. If you go back historically, things do get much more diverse.
Predicting a response that these sorts of things only happen in extreme countries, my reply is that if there were no national borders other than the atmosphere, the leaders of that region would be the most ruthless and ambitious on the planet. I do not have fond hopes that they would somehow also be simultaneously the most compassionate and altruistic.
Most great men are not good men.
Or as someone put it: Power does not corrupt--it reveals.