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The fact that you criticise someone doesn’t make you right though. It’s just a fact that every single empire in history ended up with a society which hated the
by heavenlyblue 6y ago
The fact that you criticise someone doesn’t make you right though.
It’s just a fact that every single empire in history ended up with a society which hated the conquests only to be conquered by another, less ethically-concerned nation.
It’s easy to judge when you are in a privileged position, however the reason you do that is because you already made someone else pay the price of the externalities of your champagne pacifism.
Basically you have this ethical idea that war is bad, but you provide no solution as to how to make today’s poor people reach the same level of education and plenty without giving them the means to conquer you politically, economically or by the means of warfare.
- richiebful1 6y agoCan you explain how conquest is necessary for people to come out of poverty?
- heavenlyblue 6y agoConquest is necessary because if you take a conservative opinion that you should expect from the world what it currently gives you; and what it currently gives you is that a small minority of the world’s population lives semi-happily in the western countries; then the only way for the poorer countries to get on the same level of salaries is to take away those salaries from the west and make west the third world instead. Every other argument you make is akin to a “what if”. I am speaking about how it _currently_ is.
- godelski 6y agoJust because something is common doesn't make it right either.