Are you telling me, or us, how to define our moral compass?
If you’re happy (which I hope you are you), then you’re either being demoralizing on purpose, an intellectual coward, or both. Casting moral aspersions on individuals for expressing opinions is immature at best, troubling at worst.
I'm just pointing out that seems hypocritical to perform any actions on other nations by implying that the US (in this case but it would apply to pretty much anyone) has any kind of high moral position considering it's history and behaviour. Not trying to set your moral compass, just saying it is not coherent on an individual level to applaud an economic sanction because China has "reeducation" camps while the US has had or currently has similar behaviours (thinking of the Japanese concentration camps within US soil or the "holding" areas for illegal immigrants).
It's has been argued that under those circumstances such actions are justified and since the beginning I said that probably China could argue some kind of justification. Both cases are bullshit in the case anyone was trying to be an actual "good" nation.
Considering there is no justification for any of that on any circumstance I'm trying to say that if there was a true concern for injustice at any point then the US economy wouldn't have such an economic participation with China. Now, thinking individually, I'd say that if anyone is truly uncomfortable with any of that then there are several actions we could be taking without having the government intervene, like not consuming products made in China. However, that does take a really big effort (imagine not using any product assembled in China or not playing any game that would lead to any kind of profit to Tencent) so we somehow (and for own mental health) turn a blind eye to that.
Taking all that into account, there are two ways we can process the reality of the world and act accordingly (and coherently):
- Really get out of our comfort zone and live our lives in a way that is coherent with what is being discussed in this thread (fuck China/CCP and all that) by not consuming their products
- Continue living the same way we have all of our lives accepting that we truly don't care enough about what's happening to other people (this is my personal position because I can't see how I could live without purchasing cheap clothes, food, electronics, fuel, etc).
If we only have animosity towards those regimens but we somehow support them (indirectly) then we are just virtue signaling (I'm not 100% sure this is the right term).
The sad truth is that there is no way we can have the lifestyles that we have without stomping on many other people in ways that we can hardly imagine. Every day we make choices to perpetuate this and I can't think of any time when humanity hasn't behaved this way.
My invitation is to be try to accept this sad truth because it's the only way humanity could start growing. We might be able to be better but we will never get there if we can only see what others are doing wrong or if we look for justifications for awful things we do every single day.
TL;DR: Humanity is awful and we should accept it in order to change it.