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by rdtsc 5049 days ago
That's not what I was implying. The argument is that he fears they will do something to him. And whether that fear is based in reality.

The response of the grandparent was 'no' because US legal system can't technically touch him. My response to that was that I am not exactly sure if the world should trust US in light of its actions in the last 10 years.
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philwelch 5049 days ago
We're still hip deep in hypotheticals.
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corin_ 5048 days ago
When the hypothetical is "will I be killed" then it makes sense to try and work it out in hypothetical rather than ignore it until it becomes, one way or the other, reality.
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rdtsc 5048 days ago
As someone else already replied to this. When it comes to strategic decision (I call them decision that you can't reverse, say being killed, or imprisoned for life) hypotheticals and gut instincts are pretty good.

You can't conduct an experiment to figure things out, if you can't then come back and conduct more experiment because the first one killed you.

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