Its evil. Its self-harm. Like a person nation states self-harm with such actions. Ceding strategic territory and championing assisted suicide are grotesque and harmful to the entire state. Both are a slippery slope. “Because with time vigilance tends to relax, because all horrors are dulled by routine.” Those words were written by Roberto Bolano in his masterpiece By Night in Chile. That country went the distance under Pinochet precisely starting with seemingly “ beneficial” even expedient policy driven by motives very similar to those of Starmer’s regime in present day UK.
Its evil. Its self-harm. Like a person nation states self-harm with such actions. Ceding strategic territory and championing assisted suicide are grotesque and harmful to the entire state. Both are a slippery slope. “Because with time vigilance tends to relax, because all horrors are dulled by routine.” Those words were written by Roberto Bolano in his masterpiece By Night in Chile. That country went the distance under Pinochet precisely starting with seemingly “ beneficial” even expedient policy driven by motives very similar to those of Starmer’s regime in present day UK.