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You pay taxes in the US? You are directly enabling a country to harm others. You ever buy a phone? You are directly enabling a chain of groups to harm people (in the name of creating that phone). You ever give a dollar to a homeless man? You might be directly contributing to them harming themselves (or possibly just letting them buy food/drink). Heck even your example about your sister, I think some people would argu…
You can and should be making explicit choices in that framework. You should not buy phones connected to the mistreatment of the Uighur population - and that is doable. If you think the US is doing more harm than good, you are allowed to move and surrender your citizenship. And yes, that is literally why I don't support direct cash handouts to the homeless. You can feed them and house them, you can't throw money at th…
Well, no, you aren't necessarily without paying a special additional tax to the US government, so it doesn't really solve the problem of believing that paying US taxes is active participation in morally intolerable actions.