At the moment I must say I prefer the south korean approach; break down NK's isolation, get the people on the north side the border to experience freedom and a decent standard of living.
Agreed, and for the record, I wasn't necessarily advocating a military approach to the issue. I was mostly just concerned about the idea of "national self-determination over all else," which was your justification for the freedom of Tibet, regardless of the situation it was in before the Chinese takeover.
Being that I haven't much love of the notion of "nations" to begin with, I don't know where our common ground will be about this. I honestly think that nations, and the emotions and dramas they create and inspire, are one of the largest detriments humanity faces at the moment, and that we (humans) ought to be turning our ethical and philosophical talents toward the task of being rid of them in favor of unification of "human" goals over "national" ones.
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Date: 2008-08-19 02:13 am (UTC)At the moment I must say I prefer the south korean approach; break down NK's isolation, get the people on the north side the border to experience freedom and a decent standard of living.
Agreed, and for the record, I wasn't necessarily advocating a military approach to the issue. I was mostly just concerned about the idea of "national self-determination over all else," which was your justification for the freedom of Tibet, regardless of the situation it was in before the Chinese takeover.
Being that I haven't much love of the notion of "nations" to begin with, I don't know where our common ground will be about this. I honestly think that nations, and the emotions and dramas they create and inspire, are one of the largest detriments humanity faces at the moment, and that we (humans) ought to be turning our ethical and philosophical talents toward the task of being rid of them in favor of unification of "human" goals over "national" ones.