I'm getting mixed signals here. You acknowledge that there is injustice, and you acknowledge oppression, yet in the very same breath, you imply that if you're weak, and you are oppressed, that it's your own damn fault. That it is your responsibility and that it shouldn't be up to anyone else in power to look out for you, only you.
In other words, if you're poor, just stop being poor.
This isn't middle school, where the solution to getting bullied is to learn to stand up for yourself. People are fucking dying.
My "naivete" comes from frustration with your attitude of "living with" the system, and getting used to the system because "that's life" rather than actively trying to fight the system.
Yeah, you have assumed something I did not say.
The "system" (reality, really) favoring the strong is a
fact. And consider "strength" here as more than mere might.
My original point was: Written laws depend on enforcement (which requires strength), they are pointless without a way to enforce them IRL.
So anyone arguing that what has been done "is a war crime" (crime here implies breaking a law, by definition) is wasting their time/breath at the moment, because even if it is, it's a meaningless law. This discourse can be used later, when it actually matters.
I never said we should let the weak die, or leave them to their own devices.
In fact, what Trump did, ironically, ended up being external aid for the weak Venezuelan populace against the strong dictatorship, by something even stronger (the US), thus proving the original statement (the strong do whatever, the weak endure). Even if he does not give a single F to them. What happens from now on is, IMHO, better than maintaining the previous status.
"If you're poor stop being poor" - That's correct. I never stated, however, that it should be done with your own power.
You can and should ask for help, since the strong, again,
should help the weak, but whether they will or will not do it, it's not up to us, and people should be prepared for the worst outcome, always.
It's not a nihilistic or fatalist mindset, nor a naive and optimistic one.
Just realistic. The key to everything in life is balance.
"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst".
There are some realities that we must conform to, but almost never without fighting.
The struggle of the weak, as futile as it is sometimes, is often valid and even inspiring.
I also subscribe to the idea that unity makes strength.
But to think that the weak, by their lonesome selves can achieve anything against the strong, is a vain notion.
That's all.
