• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Do the concepts “reparations” or “compensation for loss and damage” mean anything to you?

    The people who were exploited should be the ones to benefit from those diamonds.

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      12 hours ago

      The people who were exploited should be the ones to benefit from those diamonds.

      i mean probably, but this would be a question of what the law says. If we’re talking philosophy that’s irrelevant here, but to include it anyway, it would be something like “the most ethical source of any given item should be most preferred over any other source of said item” or if we’re operating under an ideology of anti-human exploitation idk where we would even start. You need a really concrete definition of exploitation, and how to combat it effectively, without just exploiting more people.

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        1 day ago

        Sounds like you think we should use the diamonds. I wouldn’t be cool with using those diamonds because they belong to the people who were forced to mine them, not me.

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          12 hours ago

          I wouldn’t be cool with using those diamonds because they belong to the people who were forced to mine them

          well most of them are dead aren’t they? Are we going to put them back into their coffins? Or, how are we planning on redistributing these?

          Dead people can’t own things, so that seems like an illogical conclusion, perhaps their estate or family? They didn’t do the work, but they would arguably be most entitled to it.