Re:Students made Oxford murder capital of late medieval Engl...
by kr0bat on Friday September 29, 2023 @11:03PM
(#37712466)
I wouldn't even disagree with a lot of what's you're putting down, but it's not very relevant, no? Even if you believe that we've "outsourced violence" - and honestly I agree, it's all to easy to forget that a lot of our first world material conditions are predicated on cheap third world labor - there's still a difference between global exploitation, and stabbing a man to death over public urination.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Students made Oxford murder capital of late medieval Engl...
by thsksbd on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:50AM
(#37715419)
Indeed, there is a difference.
It appears to me that, as brutal as it is to stab a man for exposing himself and dispersing his bodily fluids (not obviously sterile if he frequents brothels), it is far more uncivilized what we do: enslave children and exploit them until they drop like flies so we have the minerals necessary to upgrade our phone and greenwash our souls.
I mean are we seriously comparing the stabbing of a man who sexually exploits women, to the slow and painful death of a child that mines cobalt for our phones and EVs?