| ▲ | herval 2 months ago |
| how did Britain force the Chinese population to consume Opium? |
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| ▲ | adolph 2 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| >> Like britain invaded china ( opium wars ) and forced opium on china's population.
> how did Britain force the Chinese population to consume Opium?
The Chinese government of the time had banned opium and the British worked to bypass that, eventually with governmental force. |
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| ▲ | herval 2 months ago | parent [-] | | I'm not saying Britain didn't do something _against the will of the goverment_. I'm just questioning OP's nonsense that individuals were forced to consume Opium vs not forced to consume TikTok - in both cases, clearly nobody was forced. And in both cases, it's products made to be addictive. | | |
| ▲ | adolph 2 months ago | parent [-] | | The specific words were “china's population” which is different from any specific person. Did the English strap down each individual and intravenously administer opium? Unlikely. To the extent that a government reflects the general sense and purpose of a population (mandate of heaven, etc), did Queen Victoria and all her subjects force people in China to accept the presence and marketing of an addictive and risky substance? Absolutely. Ironically, the people of Great Britain fought a war to sell opium right as there was a temperance movement within Victorian culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement_in_the_Uni... |
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| ▲ | se4u 2 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don't know if you are just ignorant about history and unwilling to Google, or if you are making the point that of course British did not force feed opium to the people. What is very well established is that the british fought a war , literally called the opium war by Western historians themselves with the main objective of keeping their opium distribution into China open after the emperor banned it Their action was akin to if some majority owner of Purdue pharma invades US and forces US government to "keep the oxy market open" while letting "people make their own decision". |
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| ▲ | talldatethrow 2 months ago | parent | next [-] | | Tbh, what you describe sounds nothing like forcing opium on a people.
If mexico invaded and started making meth in the US, or started sending even more meth into the US than they do now by totally taking over the border, I would not begin taking meth. | | |
| ▲ | se4u a month ago | parent | next [-] | | The brits were also running the opium shops. So if you think country A selling opiods in country B and then going to war so that country B can not stop the sale of opiods is totally okay, then that is truly very different from my model of good behavior. | |
| ▲ | herval 2 months ago | parent | prev [-] | | exactly. |
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