Would you revoke your citizenship if...?

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Posted by Krypton on Sep-11-2007 01:17:

Would you revoke your citizenship if...?

Would you revoke your citizenship and immigrate if your government became totalitarian?

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Sep-11-2007 01:37:

it's emigrate.

Posted by Sunsnail on Sep-11-2007 01:48:

True, but to emigrate you have to immigrate.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Sep-11-2007 02:06:

yes, but in the context of the poll, its emigrate.

Posted by Fir3start3r on Sep-11-2007 02:57:

Emigrate and fight from exile, assuming I still control my own assets and for my family's future.
Probably give a different answer if I was single or if the government had already seized everything.

Posted by Krypton on Sep-11-2007 04:22:

emigrate, immigrate, assume its the same thing. You leave ur country and immigrate into another.

Posted by Moral Hazard on Sep-11-2007 12:46:

My answer would depend heavily on the nature and character of the tyrant.

Posted by George Smiley on Sep-11-2007 13:54:

Where's the "Stay and become the oppressor" option?

Posted by Lira on Sep-11-2007 16:08:

Meh, I don't really care that much for my citizenship anyway...

Posted by Krypton on Sep-11-2007 16:10:

quote:
Originally posted by George Smiley
Where's the "Stay and become the oppressor" option?

that would be, "stay and obey"

Posted by Marc Summers on Sep-11-2007 16:17:

Less QQ more pew pew

that's what i say

Posted by George Smiley on Sep-11-2007 16:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Krypton
that would be, "stay and obey"

No! I want to stay and make people obey me!

Posted by Krypton on Sep-11-2007 16:21:

quote:
Originally posted by George Smiley
No! I want to stay and make people obey me!

By all means, try . All dictators started somewhere..

Posted by Fir3start3r on Sep-12-2007 04:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Krypton
By all means, try . All dictators started somewhere..

Try Venezuela George, they'd love you there

Posted by DJ Shibby on Sep-13-2007 06:06:

8 out of 13 will probably die.

3 out of 13 could potentially make a difference.

2 out of 13 just don't care.

0 out of 13 would become oppressed... which is the most interesting statistic of all. Because there are no votes here, I have a feeling that many people don't truly understand the nature of themselves and the "pack mentality". We're already oppressed on many levels, afterall.

Einstein was in the second group, by the way. So were the blacks who fought the south during the civil war.

Anne Frank was in the first category. So was Brutus and Cassius.

Millions, the common denomitors, occupy the third and fourth ranks, whether you admit and realize it to yourself or not. I'd be willing to bet *most* (>50%) people would kill their neighbor if told by an authoritarian power to do so. Not necessarily out of malice, but we've a long way to come as a species... lots of growing up to do.