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EricHiggin on 10 August 2018
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DreadPirateRoberts said:
EricHiggin said:

So if I decide to go for a hiking trip throughout SA and end up stranded in the desert, hanging on for dear life, Canada will have no problem bashing the SA Gov because they aloud this to happen?

You think when I'm asked why I went for a hiking trip alone in the desert in SA, and I respond with, 'because I am Canadian, which makes me special, so I figured I could just go anywhere and do anything and assumed everything would work out just fine', would be an acceptable excuse?

If this Canadian citizen went there protesting, then they obviously knew the details and what could happen, so they now need to deal with the consequences, just like I would for being such a moron. This would be like walking up to a black person and calling them the 'N' word to their face, and then completely blaming them for knocking out your teeth.

Why is it that the farther into to the right wing people go, the more likely it is that they argue in false equivalence?  Your hiking argument has no relevance to anything we're discussing. It is, frankly, an idiotic distraction.

However, if you were in Saudi Arabia and were detained, then yes, Canadian consular officials would advocate on your behalf and work to ensure you are treated fairly. Even if you went there protesting.  That's one of their duties, after all.   Also, please do educate yourself.  What she is protesting is the human rights violating torture and punishment the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is visiting upon relatives of hers.  She didn't just go for a lark.

I've never had someone guess so correctly about myself... you must be a mind reader... or wrong, but maybe that's because I'm so right, apparently?

I fail to see how my mentioning of them going to protest and knowing what could happen due to that, is wrong? I'm not sure what I was so uneducated about in my last comment? Why they are there doesn't really matter, it's the fact they went and were detained for protesting, yet think they should be totally off the hook, with our Gov backing them, as if because they are Canadian they can go where they want and do what they want while they are there and get away with it scot free. SA is not Canada and everyone here knows that.

Kind of like if I was aloud to enter a Country and aloud to go hiking in their desert, assuming I would be just fine, because I know I can go hiking here in Canada and would be just fine. Problem is the desert over there, is nothing like the terrain and weather over here, and my thinking that it would be the same and that I didn't need to prepare for the worst, is what would have landed me in hot water. Here in Canada, when there is dangerous, life threatening terrain, we block it off and put warning signs, like at Niagara Falls, so why wasn't the desert fenced off? It clearly would be COMPLETELY SA's fault because they didn't follow the rules Canada has in place for it's own Country, at least based on the way this situation is playing out, which is wrong.

If I went hiking in the SA desert and almost died because of it, it would be my fault for being an idiot and should simply be glad I'm not dead. If the Canadian citizen went protesting human rights in SA and was detained because of it, it would be their own fault and they should be glad they weren't subjected to worse.