| > People deserve to have self-determination now that it's a modern, globalized world What do you mean by "people" and "self-determination". If 51% of the southerners decided to secede from the US, should they be allowed? What about the rights of the 49% southerners who want to remain with the US? Are they not people? What about the rest of americans? Do we not get a say? Besides, in the modern world, the supreme court has already ruled "self-determination" is illegal. It's nice to say people deserve self-determination, just like it's nice to say universal human rights, but it meaningless in the real world. Crimean people want to be part of russia. Eastern ukrainian people wants to be part of russia. Western ukrainian people don't want that. Which people deserve self-determination? Native hawaiians want their islands back. Non-native hawaiians want to remain part of the US. Which people deserve self-determination? 10 million taiwanese want independence. 1.4 billion chinese want taiwan returned to china. Which people deserve self-determination? At the end of the day, might makes right. And in a modern globalized world, it has never been more true. The modern globalization is the reflection of might makes right. Might created the modern globalized world. |