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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 1 year ago

If you're saying crimes by some members of a population, condemn the entire population. That's going to be a rough sell, is every citizen in Mexico responsible for the drug trafficker activity? Can we just start bombing Mexico, saying any collateral damages the responsibility of the drug traffickers?

When looking at the power dynamics of a situation you have to look at who has more capabilities. In an apartheid situation where one population has unequal access to power, weapons, civic services, infrastructure, energy, water, human rights.. you have to look at what is the systemic cause for the violence not just who's committing the violence.

When slaves rebel, it's usually very bloody, and lots of non-slave owners get killed. The solution to that is not we're going to triple down on slavery, it's oh slavery is a terrible situation that causes lots of violence but it's very nature.

The fun thing is none of us have a direct hand in resolving the conflict, but we can identify the systemic issues that are causing the cyclic violence. So if a terrible thing happens, and then people respond with another terrible thing, and then people respond to that with another terrible thing, it's the classic eye for an eye leaves the world blind.

So let's just think logically through these scenarios, either you have to come to peace with the oppressed population, deal with them fairly to end the violence... Or you have to kill every single one of them so that it doesn't matter that they were being oppressed.

this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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