Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll

Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by gruez on Friday March 18, 2022 @05:55PM (#30728045)

> It's not worse, but then seizing a billionaires boat is also not a huge grievance in the grand scheme of things, so it's not really a thorny ethical problem.

If you're approaching this from a consequentialist perspective, would you also be for preemptively seizing billionaire's assets the moment they're accused of kicking a puppy or whatever? After all, it's "also not a huge grievance in the grand scheme of things, so it's not really a thorny ethical problem".

>I'm OK living in a world where elites might have higher risks of having their property rights violated during crisis times.

Sounds great in theory until one day you're declared an elite[1]. Apparently 16% of peasants were considered kulaks in 1912, although the definition was later changed by the Bolsheviks so I'm not sure how much % actually got persecuted. Regardless I'd say the typical HN reader is at a risk of being considered a kulak.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak#Dekulakization

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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by spacemanmatt on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:16PM (#30729401)

I'd love to have enough money to be realistically called elite. That's a good problem.

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