Around the same time, the Hong Kong booksellers were detained and taken to China. “These guys were not prominent activists,” Wilson told me. “I don’t even know if they can be called dissidents because they’re just publishing things, they’re not writing.” What unsettled people, he said, was how random the detentions were. One bookseller was taken from Hong Kong, another from Thailand, suggesting a lack of safety anywhere, foreshadowing the extradition law. “The most shocking thing is that it was not shocking,” he told me. The most shocking thing is that it was not shocking. It was a sentence
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Reminds me of a cruel experiment I have read about, where a dog's cage is made to give him electric shocks. If it is predictable, the dog continues to fight and complain. If it is random, the dog gets depressed and just lets it happen.
Can people, who are (seemingly) randomly persecuted, fight back; or will they just take the abuse? Human/animal nature is the latter. It is difficult to overcome both in abusive relationships and when the abuse comes from somewhere else.
Scary!
