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Originally Posted by Girlysports
Does he hire all your family members? Will he cut ties with everyone you know that depend on him? Him penalizing you will hurt you and your family for a long time. Sure you can all start again, but think about that for a bulk of an entire country's economy.
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This is all well and good, and I specifically said that there was room for disagreement about whether the potential for retribution is enough to make us bow our heads and go along, effectively saying, "please don't hurt us, economic overlords". That's an argument that's worth having and I'm honestly not sure if I disagree, even though it makes me kind of sick to be part of a country that has to cower like that. Hence my earlier post in which I said I think my position is, "don't go, as long as we're not standing alone in not going."
But what I was talking about in the thing you quoted was Pepsifree's post about not going for a different reason - that this action won't change the way China behaves. That's simply not the deciding factor. There are, I think, lots of instances where you decline to be part of something not because it'll stop that something from happening, or that you think it'll change anyone's mind, but rather because you simply
don't want to be part of it. That's the question here.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
And for some people that is the point, so if that’s not you, my comment doesn’t apply to you.
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Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to say. If that's the point for you, you're essentially telling me, "well, might as well go to the party, because not going isn't going to make this ####### not be an #######". That you're the sort of person who would be fine with participating in that celebration in those circumstances. I assume most people
wouldn't be fine with that - that they wouldn't go just because they don't want to be part of it,
regardless of what the ####### having the party thinks or does about that decision - but maybe I'm wrong.