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> We should criticize nations that did this before AND India. Sure. Just that the "we" cannot be one of the nations that did this before, as is the case here.
by msravi 8y ago
> We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.
Sure. Just that the "we" cannot be one of the nations that did this before, as is the case here. That's hypocrisy and entitlement.
- scotty79 8y agoGovernments change. New one might criticise its own country along with others for doing dumb thing in the past.
- guitarbill 8y agoBecause learning from previous mistakes is somehow a sin?
- Gibbon1 8y ago"If all your friends jumped off a bridge then would you too?" Just because other people did something stupid doesn't make it not stupid.
- DangitBobby 8y agoIf we want to use bridge jumping in this context, it would be like saying that you can't tell people they shouldnt jump off of bridges if you've jumped off a bridge before. Which is complete nonsense.
- BurningFrog 8y agoNo HN account is a nation, surely?
- Djibouti 8y agoMostly true.
- glennpratt 8y agoBy that argument "we" can't criticize and resist nuclear proliferation. I completely reject that assertion.
- justin66 8y agoPlenty of people within the US objected to ASAT testing when the US planned it and then did it. We're not all blind followers defined by our citizenship, in the US or in India.
- portpecos 8y agoYour objection did jack shit. Even your Progressive President sold $115 Billion worth of arms to Saudi Barbaria. https://www.reuters.com/article/US-usa-saudi-security-idUSKCN11D2JQ https://www.reuters.com/article/US-usa-saudi-security-idUSKC... Welcome to the Military Industrial Complex 2.0 where the US started it, maintained it, and will continue to prop it up. And you Americans can’t do jack shit because the Military Industrial Complex is YOUR baby!
- username223 8y ago> the "we" cannot be one of the nations that did this before Why not? The US is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in a war, and we even nuked space in 1962, more or less just to see what happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime . I don't see why that disqualifies either me, or the US government, from criticizing these things.
- USisAlwaysRight 8y agoI, for one, think that the United States is the only one that should be introducing uncontrolled debris into orbit through experimental destructive testing of harmful weapons that leave orbit unisable. As a United States citizen, I think I speak for all of us, when I say we're better than you. We have divine right on our sides, and it just make sense.