That's a cute retort until it becomes apparent that many of those citizens/taxpayers are quite happy for their government to expend great sums of money in the service of brutalising others.
As much as SBF and his crowd touted "effective altruism", it was really about nothing but polishing their own image to get away with maximally selfish aims.
Maybe the best solution is to compensate and relocate the people of Nauru, and build a penal colony there, with SBF & co as the first permanent residents. Let 'em eat phosphate dust
That is such a load. Putting words in their mouth, trying to justify the cruelty and vicious vindictiveness of a broken state by throwing blame.
They paid for their cell already. The bill for a room they didn't inhabit is usurious. You book a room for a weekend, they charge you for six years, you'd complain too.
I know, just a troll, I should learn to leave them to die on the vine.
it's pretty gross if you ask me. i don't think that throwing stones at the people in a nation where the government is misbehaving helps much anything at all. on the contrary, all it can do, is harm.
Anyone who's spent any amount of time in academia knows it's the other way around: extreme [1] internal viciousness, external kumbaya PR for the tax-paying public.
I would've laughed too, were it not that these people completely wrecked a small village, caused considerable damage, rioted against the police and injured the residents. I am appalled at my own country for letting this happen.
> One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”
What makes this necessary? What, except for the profits of the owners?
People like this should not be allowed to participate in modern society. They are taking everyone around them down to raise themselves a few millimeters.
Wow... this is... evil. That's the only way I can put it. Actively and deliberately harming people in an extremely cruel way without their knowledge just to pump them for money.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/nauru-files
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