RE: Bastille Day Horror in Nice
July 15, 2016 at 10:10 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2016 at 10:11 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
There are a multitude of Both national and international guidelines yes.
But I'm talking more of a personal moral perspective. Bracketing out postwar cleanups and infrastructure development (where I reality the problem really lies), I don't feel comfortable with the idea of knowing we could at least aim to prevent a slaughter of people but we decided to take the isolationist view and we stood back and did nothing.
We live in a globalised world. Isolationism really isn't an option anymore. What happens the other side of the world will eventually affect us all one way or another.
If folks are happy to stand back or even begrudgingly allow someone to use sarin on their own people (a very unpleasant death of course), then ok. I'm not one of them, though.
But I'm talking more of a personal moral perspective. Bracketing out postwar cleanups and infrastructure development (where I reality the problem really lies), I don't feel comfortable with the idea of knowing we could at least aim to prevent a slaughter of people but we decided to take the isolationist view and we stood back and did nothing.
We live in a globalised world. Isolationism really isn't an option anymore. What happens the other side of the world will eventually affect us all one way or another.
If folks are happy to stand back or even begrudgingly allow someone to use sarin on their own people (a very unpleasant death of course), then ok. I'm not one of them, though.
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