American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

Post by dang » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:23 AM UTC

verroq wrote: post #134

Jtsummers wrote: post #113

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> I don’t believe in moral relativism. Good for you? The homeless, penniless child should never steal the loaf of bread when all other, apparent, options are exhausted. > They don’t get a pass for not knowing better. They get a pass because it was already decided a long time ago that they were too dangerous for outsiders to be allowed near. They're contained, and by the survey numbers their population is dwindling. I…

I don’t see how a single homeless child is comparable. This is more like justifying North Korea’s methods because the poor country is just trying to survive. The victim should have known they were murderous savages but gave them the benefit of the doubt anyway.

Post by dang » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:25 AM UTC

deanCommie wrote: post #12

> Mr. Pathak said Mr. Chau, believed to be 26 or 27 and from Washington State, may have been trying to convert the islanders to Christianity. Right before he left in his kayak, Mr. Chau gave the fishermen a long note. In it, police officials said, he had written that Jesus had bestowed him with the strength to go to the most forbidden places on Earth. A perfect storm of Christian and American arrogance.

Post by dang » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:30 AM UTC

JPKab wrote: post #86

joejerryronnie wrote: post #48

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@dang - is this acceptable on HN? It would really help to understand which groups we’re able to attack and which are frowned upon.

Yes, I've noticed this. I said something admittedly nasty about Mao's policies a couple of months ago, and was threatened with banning due to "borderline nationalistic trolling". Fair enough. It sure doesn't seem to be enforced in an objective fashion though. More likely, it appears to be more in line with the current fashion of SV: Never discriminate, unless it's against a group viewed as being powerful and bad by W…

Post by dang » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:35 AM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #89

Stratoscope wrote: post #68

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I'm not Dan, but I can offer my own advice: don't generalize individuals into groups, and don't attack any individual or group here. It never leads to the kind of thoughtful discussion that HN is known for. If you see a comment that attacks any individual or group, the best thing to do is downvote it, flag it, and move on.

Clearly there are groups you can criticize on HN as evidenced in this entire submission's thread.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 5:06 AM UTC

verroq wrote: post #94

Jtsummers wrote: post #33

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By "modern" I'll interpret that to mean "a nation generally participating in the global community": I'd say, they have every right to defend their borders from invaders. But they also have knowledge that these islanders don't have. They have an understanding that outsiders are not all belligerent and to be feared or non-entities to be killed (though some will act counter to that knowledge, see the stoked fear in the…

I don’t believe in moral relativism. They don’t get a pass for not knowing better. Just as their victims didn’t get a pass for not knowing better.