Comment by croes
5 hours ago
Since when are drone strikes the legal way to handle criminals. I remember something with trials before you can kill people.
5 hours ago
Since when are drone strikes the legal way to handle criminals. I remember something with trials before you can kill people.
That's a luxury you get when your society has reached a certain level of stability.
People's rights are not luxuries, but the purpose of government: "... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men ...".
They are a necessity to achieve freedom and stability.
Are you at all aware of the hellscape that is Haiti...?
Everything is that way.
Another example: Feminism? Only happened with women in the workforce. Women in the workforce? Only when the Industrial Revolution happened and the economy could support the roles. Industrial Revolution? Only happened when farming and trading got good enough that 90% of the population didn’t need to be farmers first. Very few moral enlightenments have ever actually happened absent economic preconditions, or would not be reversed if the conditions degraded.
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