| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 17 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> that is pretty serious violation of human rights I don’t think it’s that hyperbolic. But I agree that the existence of debts shouldn’t invalidate one’s right to a passport. (The counter argument is that passports are a privilege and citizenship a bundle of privileges and duties. Why should the country have the burden of passporting someone abroad who as abandoned it.) | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Paracompact 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country." Passports shouldn't be a privilege, and violation of the universal declaration of human rights is pretty serious. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | throwuttfj 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Education is also a privilege. And universities should have no power to block people from leaving a country. It is like Emirates preventing people to go home, because of unpaid speeding tickets. Or Qatar confiscating passports of Indian workers. | |||||||||||||||||
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