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by eVeechu7 412 days ago
Comparing the choices of individuals with foreign diplomacy is specious. It is much harder for countries to have principles than individuals.
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alephnan 412 days ago
The same can be said of boardroom politics and board of directors. Or investment circles such as tech venture capital
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watwut 412 days ago
They don't have principles.
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psychoslave 412 days ago
Even "maximize the hegemonic monopolistic power of my claws" can be taken as mindset principles.

Having principles is orthogonal to striving adoption of ethical fair well being for everyone.

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watwut 411 days ago
Yeah, but they don't really seem to have that either.
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