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Okay, so your argument goes like this: 1. US domestic surveillance is different than China’s because Americans can change things by electing different politici
by baddox 6y ago
Okay, so your argument goes like this:
1. US domestic surveillance is different than China’s because Americans can change things by electing different politicians.
2. Americans cannot actually in practice change things by electing different politicians.
3. If you don’t like it, you can leave.
This is a very poor argument.
- vinay427 6y agoPoints 2 and 3 seem like mischaracterizations of what they wrote. I'll try to paraphrase based on my interpretation. They seem to implicitly claim that Americans can change things in practice, but that the system can be changed to be made more representative. If someone doesn't believe in that future, they can leave because it's a defeatist view in which nothing they see as possible would really satisfy them. Neither of these points imply Americans can't in practice change things, or that people who don't like the present system should just leave.
- ahahaha2 6y agoYour simplified and mischaracterized bad faith argument is the reason why i dont comment on online forums. If you havent learnt to read and think dispassionately, I'm not going to teach you.