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Eric · 21-03-2008, 22:26

Has anyone given any thought to the athletes ... those thousands of young men and women of many nations for whom this is the defining point of their lives, who have trained long and hard for this chance to participate in the World's second greatest sporting event?

It also occured to me that to participate is not to appease. In the 30s it was obvious that Hitler was determined to move towards war; in such a case appeasement was the wrong approach, and was proved to be so. China, however, is moving slowly away from authoritarianism, and perhaps militarism. This being the case, is there not a strong argument to participate in the games, even tho' China is acting ... or overreacting ... in a rather brutal, repressive fashion in Tibet?

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Eric God Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada Posts: 9,290 Liked: 2347 times Rep Power: 58528	Re: what do you think about the chinese occupation of tibet Has anyone given any thought to the athletes ... those thousands of young men and women of many nations for whom this is the defining point of their lives, who have trained long and hard for this chance to participate in the World's second greatest sporting event? It also occured to me that to participate is not to appease. In the 30s it was obvious that Hitler was determined to move towards war; in such a case appeasement was the wrong approach, and was proved to be so. China, however, is moving slowly away from authoritarianism, and perhaps militarism. This being the case, is there not a strong argument to participate in the games, even tho' China is acting ... or overreacting ... in a rather brutal, repressive fashion in Tibet?