[HN Gopher] Bangladesh police given 'shoot-on-sight' orders amid...
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       Bangladesh police given 'shoot-on-sight' orders amid national
       curfew
        
       Author : tempodox
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2024-07-20 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | slavboj wrote:
       | So from a cursory reading, these protests were originally because
       | a quota system for government jobs, originally intended for
       | descendants of veterans, was in the past paused, and now has been
       | reimplemented as set-asides for politically favored demographics?
        
       | Murky3515 wrote:
       | Should this be something that we shut down trade with Bangladesh
       | over? If we continue to sell and buy stuff from a country that is
       | gunning down its people over protests, doesn't that discredit any
       | moral authority that we have? But at the same time, does it
       | worsen the job situation and make the protests worse?
        
         | ricc wrote:
         | I assume that by "we" you meant the United States, so the
         | question is: How much moral authority/integrity is there left
         | to discredit?
        
           | seanmcdirmid wrote:
           | You could take the rest of the developed world as well, but
           | the question wouldn't be very different.
        
         | throwaway56757 wrote:
         | "...doesn't that discredit any moral authority that we have?"
         | 
         | This has the same answer as --
         | 
         | If we continue to sell and buy stuff from a country that HAS
         | AND WOULD gun down its people over protests, doesn't that
         | discredit any moral authority that we have?
         | 
         | See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes
         | ts...]
         | 
         | It would be a worthy movement to lobby Congress/Parliament to
         | sanction, via tariffs, countries whose governments suppress
         | speech like that, but who's going to start it, which critical
         | mass of cheap-products-loving people in free societies are
         | going to support it?
        
           | linearrust wrote:
           | A throwaway peddling anti-china propaganda in a thread having
           | nothing to do with china? How shocking.
        
         | RicoElectrico wrote:
         | Well, there were sanctions for Poland after the martial law of
         | 1981...
        
         | from-nibly wrote:
         | "Moral authority" isn't a thing. Stuff is either right or wrong
         | regardless of who participates or believes it.
         | 
         | Anyone who claims to have moral authority is just opressing
         | others with their opinions.
         | 
         | "Should we do something" is a personal question, that my
         | comment is not going to answer.
        
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