| How much karma do you need on HN to downvote? Because this deserves one. How often are we going to repeat this point? Okay, as slowly and clearly as I can: "Two wrongs don't make a right." Just because the US does bad thing X, doesn't mean we can't talk about another country doing bad thing X. Please, for the love of baby Jesus and his family. Please. Please. I won't even top it off with a "the country's people are not the same as its government," or anything like it. I just beg of you, please, please stop using this line of reasoning. I'm so exhausted of seeing it. It wears me down. PS: GP has a point, he sketches the context. Fine. "Russia is not the only one, also US." Okay, it's true. But when you say "don't talk about Russia, because US!" then no. No, no, no, no. No. EDIT: Can't reply to "rational-future", so I'll say it here: No, not at all. The opposite. As I said: "GP has a point". My problem is here: > Furthermore, people should be concerned with their own country's criminality, not hypocritically pointing the finger at official enemies like Russia. This is wrong. Telling people to shut up because their government / countrymen / ... does the same thing. Sure, call them out for being hypocrites. But even hypocrites have a right to speak. So, yeah: do talk about the US. Sure. Give me context. As long as you leave all the room for the original discussion. |