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Comment by ericmay

1 day ago

Oh well. They shouldn’t have harbored bin Laden. Whatever justification about “loss of trust” you can use here anyone else gets to use too. There was a loss of trust from Dr. Fauci (not by me, I got the vaccine ASAP and wore a mask until restrictions were lifted) by some because of actions taken.

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crumpled  1 day ago

I'm talking about choices made by people doing the hunting. I don't know why you're absolving them as if all choices are good choices. It takes more than a circumstance to justify an action.

I like a win. But a clean win is worth being proud of. It would actually be really cool not to shoot yourself in the foot, I think.

  • ericmay  1 day ago

    I’m just saying it’s justified, not that it was or is the best choice available. Nobody really knows what choices are available. Pakistan and its people made a choice to harbor bin Laden - they certainly had choices that we don’t need to absolve them for either.

GJim  19 hours ago

> Oh well. They shouldn’t have harbored bin Laden

Yes, I'm sure the kids who missed their polio vaccinations were all directly responsible for harbouring bin Laden.

Perhaps you will suggest they were playing a long game of hide-and-seek with him?

  • ericmay  15 hours ago

    No, because they are children, but their parents and government are directly responsible.

    Your view here is a very western colonial one in which you infantalize other people and cultures and believe you are superior and thus must help them, they have no responsibility for their own actions, and so forth.

    If the people of Pakistan (or anywhere) are deprived of their agency as you are here to suggest, then we must colonize them for their own good, set up the institutions, take over their ministry of health, and so forth. That’s how the children get their Polio vaccines. I do not propose this because I do not hold these views, but you cannot escape the effects of the viewpoint in which you espouse here.