On May 14, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Prasad J wrote:
Helping people circumvent the Chinese firewall is tantamount to abetting a crime-and thereby unethical, unless a competent international body (like the U.N) officially makes a statement to the effect that China is a fascist state where citizens are brutally oppressed by the Government and denied any human right whatsoever.
I simply cannot understand this standpoint. First off with describing the UN as "competent", but let's move past that.
The determining factor to you about whether to (non-violently!) resist an oppressive government isn't whether it is, in fact, oppressive, but rather whether or not it's officially designated "oppressive" by the UN?
Did Gandhi wait for the British colonization of India to be designated "oppressive" by foreigners before he began his resistance?