From comment on @bellacaledonia It would be fairer to say that Westminster is failing large parts of the UK and a common theme of the NO arguments seems (now as it was before the vote) to be that we must stay together to help our suffering comrades in the South. Other variants include we should avoid nuclear disarmament until everyone disarms and we should not try to set an example of how we can build a more equal society until the World as a whole is more equal. Naive or disingenuous? How about: • I’m not giving to charity until everyone gives to charity! • We should keep torturing people until everyone stops torturing? • My country will not stop polluting the environment until all other countries stop… • I’m not going to save even one child from a marauding gun-person if I can’t save all of them…. Maybe I’m missing something but it strikes me that at some point one has to set an example rather than wait for a utopian dream.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:47:14 +0000
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