Re: Without endorsing some of the comments - is this not a genuinely complex moral issue? Archived Message
Posted by brooks on February 15, 2019, 2:45 pm, in reply to "Without endorsing some of the comments - is this not a genuinely complex moral issue?"
I would agree generally, but a fifteen year old girl is a child and therefore more victim than criminal, and should be shown every leniency. Besides which, she and her friends were probably only able to leave the UK surveillance-state and freely travel to Syria to join a UK-backed insurgency with the collusion of state intelligence. In her wiki entry is the following "The three girls had been questioned by the police in December 2014 after another girl from their school travelled to Syria, but were found not to be at risk.[4] At this point probably all of her online activity would have been surveilled, so her travel plans would have been known in advance. And even if she was not directly abetted (unlikely in my opinion), the anti-Assad propaganda barrage she was exposed to every day along with other influences she should not have been exposed to, must have played a role in her bad decision. In which case the state that victimized her - i.e. the UK - and of which she is a citizen bears some responsibility to help her, imo.
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