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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Martial law is dictatorship anyone who advocates for it under any circumstances is an enemy of freedom

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not really. It's good for a while when the freedoms of your country are being attacked by another country. It's a way to get a country to be put on pause while military issues are being handled and everybody is supposed to work together in unison. What it's not good for is to use it on local opponents or your own people. So just like any other weapon or tool it should be used correctly by people with good intentions. That's what it's there for anyways. Almost every country has a form of martial law.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The whole "any circumstances" is a dangerous stance, man. Any? Like... ANY?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Name any circumstances where slavery is good. Any of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Slavery? Don't bait and switch me. You said Marshall law.

Slavery is part of the human condition. Africans did it too. Google Firestone sometime. We humans seem to constantly make the mistake that we're too good to enslave eachother, while we go on enslaving eachother, and... pretend no one is, even in a country it doesn't exist(totally does) in.

This doesn't get into whether or not you're in the camp that the entire idea of money is just slavery with a fake sense of autonomy, but I guess that depends on the point you want to make and how you season it.

Actually, if you wanted to make that argument, you could say that all of human society is thanks to some form of slavery.

...when you put it like that, yikes, guys.