Avainsana: justice
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An activist is not a criminal – Arctic peatlands are at danger and telling that to the public is the right thing to do
Wednesday 25.9. a Swedish environmental activist group Återställ Våtmarker, together with Elokapina/Extinction Rebellion Finland, smeared the columns of the Parliament building with red water-soluble plant-based paint in Helsinki to highlight the destruction of the environment by Arctic peatlands. So the columns were smeared with paint, which could be washed off almost immediately. In a democracy…
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Popper, ”paradox of tolerance”, Hitler, Trump and the modern far-right
The Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote in his book ”Open society and its enemies” in 1945 about the ”paradox of tolerance” and warns of the danger of fascism and its bystanders. The paradox goes roughly like this: If tolerant people tolerate and accept intolerance, it follows that intolerant people like fascists and Nazis will take…
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Democracy and freedom under threat in Finland and globally
Most people in the world are not free. Liberal democracy is the result of a long development, which was influenced by e.g. the philosophy and ideals of ancient Greece, the Reformation and the Enlightenment of the 18th century. However, it is a rare treat. Only 1/4 of the world’s countries are democracies and at the…
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