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"Convict Illegally Crosses International Borders by Sea to Evade Lawful Court Sentence"
You have to read the article.
I did, what he did was illegal. What's the problem?
Only illegal In a censorship regime, not a crime anywhere else, so he's free to travel to other countries
Are you under the impression that fleeing felons under warrant in other countries are given travel documents and allowed to exit before standing trial for their crimes?
What magical world do you live in?
...and FWIW, we have people in prison right now in Canada for violation of prohibited speech laws.
Duh, he's claiming asylum obviously from being a political prisoner. You don't ask permission to leave. Canada accepts lots of asylum seekers
So you think it would be appropriate for another country to grant asylum to a Canadian citizen, if they fled prosecution for a Section 318 or 319 offense?
If it was a human rights violation or clearly a political arrest. Just because a country can imprision you doesn't mean it is just.
Like thr UK arresting people for having a shirt that says Peace for Palistine, or making statements about the genocide happening. That's no really about a terror thrrwt its the leaders who've made stance alligiances wanting to continue to hold power.
Got it, so YOUR country's government has the right to decide what people can and cannot promote publicly, but other countries do not.
I see you are big on nuance...
The importing country decides based on human rights and other criteria. Do you not know how amnesty, asylum and refugee status works?
Its why those exist to protect political prisoners.
I feel like I'm talking with a paid Chinese bot.
Interesting take that anyone who doesn't agree with the utility of western style representative democracy must be a spy or a robot...
Do you feel like elected officials in Canada speak to the needs and desires of the working class more often than not? Do YOU feel well represented in Ottawa?
If like 80% of Canadian citizens, you were born and raised here; have you ever taken any time to consider the miraculous coincidence that the system you were born into just happens to be the "right" one? Is that just luck of the draw for you, or is it possible you've been indoctrinated?
I wasn't born in Canada, and didn't say one country has moral right, but there are human rights and international backed asylum. Countries on either side use it all the time.
...and again I ask; you are 100% confident that the prevailing world order, largely established by Britain, America, and NATO more broadly, is the lens through which we should view human good?
To paraphrase what you said earlier: just because a system exists doesn't mean it's just or right.
Doesn't it seem a little suspect that a thing isn't considered "bad" or objectionable until NATO members stop doing it?
The current world order was built on centuries of racism, oppression, slavery, and foreign interference; with a helping hand from 780,000,000,000 tonnes of atmospheric CO2 emission... Maybe we shouldn't see that perspective as the moral high ground?
You drag in so many strawman non sequitor type stuff that I can't have this conversation with you. You are likely a paid social media account trying to cause trouble based on the pattern of speech
Questions aren't strawmen... the opposite actually. Challenging my integrity because you disagree with me IS an ad hominem attack though.
The intellectual exercise of challenging your upbringing, indoctrination, and convictions is too much for a lot of people.
Characterize me however you need to in order to avoid those uncomfortable questions about your own bias though...Have a good one.
Lol. Read your replies, every one you go off on another tangent.
...another reply with an emotional appeal and no cogent perspective.
"Homosexual escaping execution in homophobic country is breaking the law."
You're a dirty rat.
Homosexuality is not seditious.
Get your feelings under control.
Yes. This happens, literally, every single day across the world. We even have a word for it. Asylum
So this begs the question, what magical world do you live in?
"Tankie licks cops' boots because the cops were anti-west."
Just because a something is lawful doesn't make it right.
Sure but it does highlight the flaws in Canada's refugee/immigration system.
According to you?
Your moral code should define the legal codes for all humankind? Do you not believe in the right to self-determination?
It's a little more than some rando on Lemmy that says that what happened to him is wrong, y'know. What happened to him is a clear violation of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights—Article 19, if I'm not mistaken. That means that a good chunk of the world agrees that it's wrong.
...And a good chunk of the world has colonial capitalism and centuries of out-group exploitation to thank for whatever prosperity their nation enjoys. Also, a good chunk of the world's high-idealed systems would undoubtedly crumble under the weight of 1,400,000,000 people.
I'm not saying that everything China does is how I would like to see things done; but I suspect we could agree that letting dissension fester until radicals storm your houses of government and compromise your elections isn't a workable solution either.
As a secular humanist, I have to weigh the casualties of a system against the good it provides its body populace. With most liberal western democracies currently facing extreme wealth disparity, working class desperation, and some level of existential crises over ideological extremism; maybe we should reserve some level of judgement until WE have lifted 800,000,000 people out of poverty.
I'm not sure that any of the ongoing experiments in absolute individual liberty are going particularly well...
Yet you seem to think the current Chinese government’s legal code should define morality for all humankind? lol
hes a tankie of course.
Where did I say that?
Also, morality is entirely subjective.
But china bad therefore anyone who's against China is good 🤓