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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Or we could just decide to respect the decisions of other sovereign nations to govern themselves as they see fit. We have as much right to tell Putin how to run his country as Putin has to tell us how to run ours. The kind of change that matters has to come from within, and it has to happen naturally. Pressuring people to change only gets external results while seeding internal resentment and hostility.
How about, for the sake of all the men and women who have dedicated their entire lives to get to these events, we allow the Olympics to just be about the people competing in them.
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Ah yes, the old 'let countries do what they wish' response. That's worked out oh so well in the past. Let them round up and beat the people who only ask to be treated as humans. Let them deny basic rights. Hey, let's turn a blind eye to those train cars while we're at it.
I'm glad this topic came up in FOI, it really exposed a whole new group of scumbags.