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The US-based system is the modern version of a religion. They promote their interests based on abstract "values", so you have to believe in these values to be a
by coliveira 2y ago
The US-based system is the modern version of a religion. They promote their interests based on abstract "values", so you have to believe in these values to be a good person (whatever they're promoting as good), and believe that the US gov is the leader in pursuing these values, just like the Catholic Church proclaimed during the middle ages. If you accept these illogical premisses, other governments are necessarily against democracy and freedom, and therefore have no reason to exist and need to be destroyed from within or from outside if needed. To be clear, the main problem in Western ideology is not the values themselves, but the idea that they're the best and other countries that don't support them need to be conquered or destroyed. It is barbarism by other means.
- rangestransform 2y agotaking this morally relativistic position to its logical conclusion, should the preeminent military power intervene with force to stop a country genociding its own people within its own borders, for example? how about intervening without force to stop the institutionalized subservience of women, through political meddling?