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Therefore what? Bad thing happens in the US, yes that's true, but well, that same bad thing happens in other places too, so therefore.... what?
by tunesmith 5y ago
Therefore what? Bad thing happens in the US, yes that's true, but well, that same bad thing happens in other places too, so therefore.... what?
- staticman2 5y agoDon't get me wrong, i find this story outrageous, but whether our system is doing comparatively well or comparatively poor seems like useful empirical information. For one thing, if another country handles things better, that shows humans are capable of improving their system.
- tunesmith 5y agoAh yes, that does help. Too often I see people make statements like that and it just comes across as fatalistic, like an attempt to dissipate the will of others to do anything about it at all. I wonder what the other countries are that do better, and what they do differently. Maybe there should be a mandated evidence review every x years, irrespective of sentence.
- mucholove 5y agoI love this attitude. In life, so many people are happy to reference themselves to a very poor standard. For mang Dominicans, it’s OK in the case of Dominican Republic to be the third country in Latin America for so many statistic—automobile accidents, coronavirus deaths, you name it. This is unacceptable to me. Pick the highest bar—and if the highest bar isn’t good enough—set a new standard. Sure, we will have failures—but we need to push the envelope and do “good” not “better than worse”.
- ars 5y agoSo therefore humans are humans. If it was unique you can point to what makes it unique - but if it happens everywhere, then it's because humans are humans. If you don't understand the source of the problem you have no change of fixing it.