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sutree
10/01/17 7:08:47 PM
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Does Catalonia have a right to secede from Spain?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Spanish_constitutional_crisis
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CircleOfManias
10/01/17 7:15:40 PM
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Honestly, I don't know. Secession is always a colossal clusterfuck, but the arguments for secession are pretty strong. I'd have to do more research to be able to say. Do they have the right? Obviously. Consent of the governed is a cornerstone of what makes modern society actually work. Should they secede? Hard to say.
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sutree
10/01/17 7:18:29 PM
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CircleOfManias posted...
Do they have the right? Obviously.

How is that obvious? Did the southern states in American Civil War have an obvious right to secede as well?
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CircleOfManias
10/01/17 7:21:56 PM
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sutree posted...
CircleOfManias posted...
Do they have the right? Obviously.

How is that obvious? Did the southern states in American Civil War have an obvious right to secede as well?


The South didn't choose to peacefully secede with a referendum, they opened fire on US troops at Ft. Sumter.
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AlternativeFAQS
10/01/17 7:22:56 PM
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sutree posted...
CircleOfManias posted...
Do they have the right? Obviously.

How is that obvious? Did the southern states in American Civil War have an obvious right to secede as well?


you need a history book
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CarlGrimes
10/01/17 7:23:26 PM
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CircleOfManias posted...
sutree posted...
CircleOfManias posted...
Do they have the right? Obviously.

How is that obvious? Did the southern states in American Civil War have an obvious right to secede as well?


The South didn't choose to peacefully secede with a referendum, they opened fire on US troops at Ft. Sumter.

Yes, they just jumped right to the fighting.
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Crazyman93
10/01/17 7:26:20 PM
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CircleOfManias posted...
The South didn't choose to peacefully secede with a referendum, they opened fire on US troops at Ft. Sumter.

Actually they voted to secede and then used state forces to start booting Federal ones out. Not that that changes the end result.
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sutree
10/01/17 7:32:02 PM
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CircleOfManias posted...
sutree posted...
CircleOfManias posted...
Do they have the right? Obviously.

How is that obvious? Did the southern states in American Civil War have an obvious right to secede as well?


The South didn't choose to peacefully secede with a referendum, they opened fire on US troops at Ft. Sumter.

The Battle of Ft. Sumter occurred four months after South Carolina declared its secession and Union troops refused to leave.
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Antifar
10/01/17 7:35:20 PM
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I'm skeptical of nationalist movements as a rule, but the Spanish government is doing a wonderful job of justifying Catalan efforts.
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Hey
10/01/17 7:39:06 PM
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I can't see why any country would let a part of it secede.
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Doe
10/01/17 7:42:30 PM
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The idea that the people do not have a right to secede from their government is tyrannical.
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Vicious_Dios
10/01/17 7:46:24 PM
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Ugh...

I really don't want to learn the name of another small ass shitty country in Europe.
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sutree
10/01/17 7:47:36 PM
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Doe posted...
The idea that the people do not have a right to secede from their government is tyrannical.

Why?
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Doe
10/01/17 7:49:37 PM
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sutree posted...
Doe posted...
The idea that the people do not have a right to secede from their government is tyrannical.

Why?

The government should serve the people and be by the people. If the government is shitty enough that a massive portion of the country is telling it to fuck off and the government responds by trying to silence them, I don't see how that is not tyranny.
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Callixtus
10/01/17 7:55:25 PM
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Modern secessionism is usually a disease that should be gently repressed. Self-determination is a useful ideal, and in many cases justified, but the modern European version in which every backwater that speaks a slightly different dialect wants to form a new country, throwing international order and commerce into disarray is not the right answer. These people are not being systematically denied their rights nor representation.
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averagejoel
10/01/17 7:57:23 PM
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Callixtus posted...
Modern secessionism is usually a disease that should be gently repressed. Self-determination is a useful ideal, and in many cases justified, but the modern European version in which every backwater that speaks a slightly different dialect wants to form a new country, throwing international order and commerce into disarray is not the right answer. These people are not being systematically denied their rights nor representation.

that's not for you to decide
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RebelElite791
10/01/17 7:58:10 PM
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I really don't know enough about the situation to have an opinion, but

Antifar posted...
I'm skeptical of nationalist movements as a rule, but the Spanish government is doing a wonderful job of justifying Catalan efforts.

That lol.
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ThyCorndog
10/01/17 7:58:41 PM
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Spain's interest in catalonia not seceding extends past catalonia. Basque country and possibly others like galicia would have a precedent to secede and iberia could end up like the balkans

I don't particularly care either way on whether catalonia secedes or not tbh
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CatataFish462
10/01/17 7:59:31 PM
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Yes, they deserve the right to better themselves.
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Callixtus
10/01/17 8:05:27 PM
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averagejoel posted...
Callixtus posted...
Modern secessionism is usually a disease that should be gently repressed. Self-determination is a useful ideal, and in many cases justified, but the modern European version in which every backwater that speaks a slightly different dialect wants to form a new country, throwing international order and commerce into disarray is not the right answer. These people are not being systematically denied their rights nor representation.

that's not for you to decide

Actually it's pretty easy to objectively discover whether a group is being systematically denied rights or representation, ie taxation without representation leading to the American Revolution was an objective state of reality. Is there any reason to think that they are suffering from something of that nature?
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