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In reply to the discussion: NKorean soldier defects to SKorea across border [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)67. Sure it's his fault, not the governments
In a "look what you made me do" kind of mentality.
Just like we labeled slaves who escaped as deranged because didn't they know their friends could be punished as a result?
And lawd help them if they killed some white slave masters as they fled. That would have been cruel to the families of those slave masters.
/North Koreans are by all definitions slaves. And materially worse off than slaves in the old south (where at least mass famine didn't strike every few years and they were allowed some religion and independent thought).
//no I'm not saying slavery here was good. I'm saying what the people of North Korea have to live with is truly horrific.
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There are crossroads that are safe. Some North Koreans even work in South Korea.
joshcryer
Oct 2012
#40
May he be kept safe and find his way in what is going to be a very different world
gtar100
Oct 2012
#3
That's beside the point. I have no doubt that the majority of soldiers follow orders.
Arrowhead2k1
Oct 2012
#8
When it's either you or me who gets to live, and your job is to kill me, I choose me.
Ikonoklast
Oct 2012
#10
I don't know, you don't kill your fellow humans in that way without considering it.
joshcryer
Oct 2012
#38
We had one that liked to post pictures of smiling North Koreans as proof that
msanthrope
Oct 2012
#64
I suppose you weren't too pleased with Soviet defections to the west, either.
LanternWaste
Oct 2012
#72