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> the US is a far preferable superpower than the other probable options. do you have an argument for this claim?
by gaucheries 4y ago
> the US is a far preferable superpower than the other probable options.
do you have an argument for this claim?
- vitiral 4y agoSure, just imagine if Germany had gotten nukes first. Would they have never used them again? How many countries, when given damn near absolute power, wouldn't have used it to directly conquer?
- gaucheries 4y agothis just isn't an argument.
- gaucheries 4y ago
- Otek 4y agoYou asked for argument and he gave you one. You said it’s not an argument without backing it up anyhow why it’s not an argument > “lol”
- gaucheries 4y agohope you have a good day, OK? you are loved.
- lflflfdk 4y agoit is both an argument and the historical reason, the Manhattan Project existed because the US didnt want fascists to have nukes first
- toastercat 4y agoI disagree. They are seemingly rhetorical questions, but the answers to those questions are not immediately as obvious as they are implied to be.
- lflflfdk 4y ago[dead]
- toastercat 4y agoThis is more conjecture than a compelling argument, in my opinion.
- pwinnski 4y agoSo many answers seem to be rooted in the 50-year Cold War period, and none of them seem to address the 30 years since. If you have two evils, you choose the lesser of two evils. If you eliminate the greater of the two evils, all you're left with is evil. Saying that the country which dropped two atomic bombs on civilian populations is better than a hypothetical in which some other other country dropped more of them, it's... I mean, we're still the only country that ever dropped atomic bombs on civilian populations!
- vitiral 4y agoI try very hard to not have an opinion, since I know that I know very little. But the person didn't ask for my opinion, just "an argument." Things are rarely as simple as good and evil. But if you want an argument against certainty, there are many.
- llamaimperative 4y agoConsidering in recent history the other contenders were imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, the USSR, or communist China… yeah the US is preferable to all of those by a wide margin. You know, simple things like 1) not forcing their own women and children to march into machine gun fire [Japan], 2) not building concentration camps and exterminating whole races [Germany], 3) not building a prison state that people regularly got shot trying to escape [USSR], or 4) a combination of all of those prior “techniques” plus a highly capable surveillance state [China]
- gaucheries 4y agodo you think the USA hasn't done the things you've cited?
- gaucheries 4y agoUS operates secret prisons, overthrows governments they don't agree with, and murders innocent people.
- ethanbond 4y agoYes, and? Are you under the impression those other regimes wouldn't be doing those things after they had gained superpower status? Because if they would, then this point isn’t relevant to which is preferable, is it?
- gaucheries 4y agoi was just wondering why the US is a preferable superpower like you said. edit: the > a
- pmarreck 4y agoAll the other contenders that I'm aware of do these things, except much worse, and then on top of it, hide it much better (because that's possible to do if you're a one-party system) https://reason.com/2014/05/15/be-antigovernment-and-proud/ https://reason.com/2014/05/15/be-antigovernment-and-proud/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide Democratic, capitalist states commit the least democide.