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14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal

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560 points whatsupdog | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 11:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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perihelions ◴[08 Sep 25 11:48 UTC] No.45167153[source]▶
Hard-earned freedoms are wasted on societies who don't have memories of what it took to earn them. Freedom is a ratchet: slides easily and frictionlessly one way, and offers immense resistance in the other.

This is all so disheartening.

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KaiserPro ◴[08 Sep 25 12:25 UTC] No.45167428[source]▶
> are wasted on societies who don't have memories of what it took to earn them

I mean thats a bit rich given the massive civil war, dictatorship and overthrow of the monarchy that all happened within living memory.

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SirHumphrey ◴[08 Sep 25 12:52 UTC] No.45167653[source]▶
It's an overtly American perspective - perspective of a nation perpetually terrified of repeating the downfall of the Roman Republic.

In reality long periods of political instability make people quite happy to trade freedoms for peace.

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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[08 Sep 25 13:16 UTC] No.45167874[source]▶
> long periods of political instability make people quite happy to trade freedoms for peace

To be fair, the Romans traded long periods of recurring civil wars for peace. We’re nowhere close to that in America.