• @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    52 years ago

    Morals go either way. Border lines on a map matter less than prosperity of people. When separatism leads to worse issues, it automatically becomes a worse choice. However, with individualism and selfishness, separatism looks like a good prospect.

    • poVoq
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      -12 years ago

      Borders are arbitrary. People might as well say the best outcome would be a capitalist world government. So those separatist Chinese that insist on having their own flavor of Capitalism should really just think more of the prosperity of the people ( /s obviously).

      In the end the prosperity of the people does indeed matter more, but arbitrary lines on a map only become an issue for that when people make them so. There is nothing inherently problematic in having decentralized means of administration under different flags as long as everyone cooperates.

      • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        42 years ago

        Yeah, that is true. But with the example of capitalist world government, the funny part is capitalism is collapsing at the moment beyond recovery. It already is an irony considering capitalism is not for proletariat prosperity concerns. And Taiwan is not exactly prospering on its own, or because it has to. Taiwan’s major USP is chip making, and the moment that goes away, none of those 14 countries that show fake concerns for it in global media will stick around. It will be dumped just like Hong Kong did the moment it stopped being a “free” UK colony.

        I went off a tangent there, but this stuff is just not black and white.