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by ben_w 3 days ago
> Do you hear yourself?

Better than you heard me, given that's not what I said.

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This is an uphill battle, I'm afraid. As evidenced from their other comments, slibhb struggles a lot with basic moral concepts like "you are responsible for the things you do".
It's very fashionable for Westerners to evince belief in the idea that inhabitants of third-world countries have no free will and aren't responsible for their actions. We're told that everything bad that happens in those countries is due to large Western companies or a history of colonization.

This is all very silly. The genocide in Myanmar (it's a civil war last I checked) isn't Facebook's fault (legally or morally). Facebook has surely made mistakes, but that doesn't make them to blame for people killing each other on the other side of the world.

You're still shadow-boxing with what you want me to have written, not what I actually wrote.
I reread your posts, and no. You seem unaware of what your posts imply about the agency of certain groups of human beings.