Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi...
by lupire on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:09PM
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Prisoners of War are not the same as slaves. Words have meaning.
Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi...
by namaria on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:12PM
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You really count on semantics to keep us safe from tyranny?
Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi...
by orestarod on Monday October 03, 2022 @08:49AM
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Not parent's point. The point was not to conflate Prisoners of War (or Prisoners of Spy War here?) with slaves. Slaves are enslaved to provide labor without rights and payments, are treated as commodity, and are traded for other commodities, with explicit monetary value. In the case of spy prisoners, people who are in jail because they broke some law are traded for other people in jail in another country who broke another law, because they are valuable to their country of origin, and they too want to return to their home country instead of being in jail in a foreign country. They are not used for labor and they do not have monetary value that can be used in a market.
Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi...
by vbezhenar on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:29PM
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China is not at war with US.
Some western people are completely out of bounds. You're basically suggesting trading humans. It's called slavery. To arrest someone and trade him for someone. What's going on. You're not the only person suggesting it. I saw similar comments on other websites. For example someone suggested to arrest some random Russian sportsman and trade him for American sportsman girl who was arrested because of marihuana found on her in airport.
It's just wrong. It creates all the kinds of wrong incentives. If you think that someone is a spy and you can prove it, go ahead and put him in jail or deport him or apply whatever measures law requires. But no human trading.