Is there an ethical imperative to allow unreined self-determination even when that determination is top-down, undemocratic, and fundamentally opposed to our putative (no pun intended) ideals? To what extent should people be allowed to make their own mistakes regardless of those mistakes’ effect on the rest of the world?
If American voters decide that preserving obsolete coal jobs is more important than a 3M sea level rise (number pulled out of my ass, hypothetical) and some foreign government with green energy interests interferes with our dumbass process, isn’t that a net benefit?
Obvs I’m not suggesting Russia currently has such high-minded egalitarian motives, but take it as a thought experiment.
