Dearth comments on China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

China executes pedophiles and America elects them and worships at their churches. It's really not a complicated comparison. There is no gotcha here

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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Fair, though I'm not sure it's as simple as that. I'm no fan of the US, but what do you think is the biggest issue plaguing China right now from a humanist perspective?

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

Poverty (which they're alleviating), and the trappings of poverty (like poor labor conditions, corruption, and abuse).
Environmental degradation (which they are alleviating) and all the trappings that come with it (like greater impact on the poor, bad health outcomes, corruption).
Threats from state actors (which they are alleviating) and the trappings that come it (like selective repression of dissent, organizing, and collaboration, surveillance and chilling effects, etc)

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[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Maybe both countries should stop executing people given that a non-negligible number of them are entirely innocent. Maybe capital punishment should have been abandoned long before the 21st Century and any country that continues it be a pariah state.

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[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Im not a fan of corporal punishment at all. I don't think any state should have authority to end any life for any reason. I could wish for an end to state sanctioned murder in one hand and shit in my other. We all know which hand will fill up first

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