My sense is there have been areas with 10,000+ people who were voluntarily relocated, and where the relocation package did get a 95%+ approval, but I am not sure.
I’m sure this has happened somewhere in the US, say, but, those 10,000 people did not constitute an entire sovereign nation, with representatives in the UN and so on. They were “moving down the road”, to a different place within the same nation, where they continued to have democratic control over their own laws. The people of Nauru have lived there for 3000 years, and suffered greatly under colonial rule before finally gaining self-governance, I find it unlikely they would give it up again so lightly.
Fundamentally, I do not think it makes sense for a country to “democratically” give up it’s right to democratic self-governance. I mean, think about the people who voted “no” on the sale: their right to vote on their own governance, on their own ancestral homeland, is taken away from them without their consent. I do not see a universe where this is ethical. Even if the set of laws FTX is allowed to write are limited, they still apply to the people of the nation, who either have to obey the FTX foundation or abandon their own country and ancestral homeland.
I’m sorry if I come off as emotional here, but I find this proposal deeply troubling and it stands against every one of my principles. I really hope that it was only the one or two fools who were actually considering it.
I’m sure this has happened somewhere in the US, say, but, those 10,000 people did not constitute an entire sovereign nation, with representatives in the UN and so on. They were “moving down the road”, to a different place within the same nation, where they continued to have democratic control over their own laws. The people of Nauru have lived there for 3000 years, and suffered greatly under colonial rule before finally gaining self-governance, I find it unlikely they would give it up again so lightly.
Fundamentally, I do not think it makes sense for a country to “democratically” give up it’s right to democratic self-governance. I mean, think about the people who voted “no” on the sale: their right to vote on their own governance, on their own ancestral homeland, is taken away from them without their consent. I do not see a universe where this is ethical. Even if the set of laws FTX is allowed to write are limited, they still apply to the people of the nation, who either have to obey the FTX foundation or abandon their own country and ancestral homeland.
I’m sorry if I come off as emotional here, but I find this proposal deeply troubling and it stands against every one of my principles. I really hope that it was only the one or two fools who were actually considering it.