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Protesters blockade Palantir offices over tech firm’s ‘totalitarian’ work with ICE (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think that sitting in a peace circle while your friends get carted off to death camps is always the wrong thing to do.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Agreed, but if you had the option of hiding your friends, then that would probably be better than shooting at the people trying to take them away for the simple reason then you would probably get outshot, and if not then more would likely follow. If you don't have that option, though, then by all means start shooting if that is the only way to save their lives.

    Applied to this situation: it would probably be better for this group to protest peacefully for as long as they can because once they start blowing up buildings then most likely martial law or something similar will be declared and they will likely lose the ability to do anything unless they can win against the military. Additionally, they would likely end up alienating the general population, so there would be few places they could go to for support.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hiding them? How did that work out for Anne Frank?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If the people keeping her family in hiding had chosen to open fire on the Gestapo instead of keeping her family's presence a secret, then it is not clear to me how it would have resulted in her living longer than she did.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The soldiers would be dead and they could all have fled somewhere else.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    If they had believed it was the best option at the very beginning, then nothing had been stopping her family from fleeing somewhere else instead of going into hiding when it would have arguably been easiest to do so.

    Also, it would not be enough to wound some of the soldiers; you would have to kill all of them before they were able to kill you and then capture your friends. Nonetheless, once her family had been discovered, I acknowledge that was really the only option that had a chance of keeping them from being captured. It is one thing to say that, though, and another to actually start shooting when you are the one faced with such a decision.

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