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by europeanperson 7y ago
What's wrong with reminding people (who are probably from the US) that their government is worse? The whataboutism that I see most on Hacker News is Americans complaining about the Chinese government, while their own country has a horr
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by europeanperson 8y ago
This is not a game of chance. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. Let's base our principles based on what actually happens. I think it's ridiculous to give the U.S. a pass because the killing might stop in a few decades.
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by europeanperson 8y ago
I agree that the U.S. is way more democratic than China. My argument is that the wars that the U.S. has started have been way more damaging to the world and, as a consequence, moral objections to doing business with China without having tho
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by europeanperson 8y ago
A horrible act, but I don't see how it is worse than the war in Iraq.
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by europeanperson 8y ago
It is if you apply it to China and not to the U.S.
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by europeanperson 8y ago
I agree.
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by europeanperson 8y ago
You got me there. It's just that almost all of the current comments talk about how YC shouldn't do business in China, while they're already doing business in the U.S. I just don't see how it is worse, when the U.S. has a
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by europeanperson 8y ago
If they were against doing business in countries that have "done horrendous humanitarian crimes", they wouldn't have done business in the U.S.
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by europeanperson 8y ago
I assume that most of the people that commented on this article live in the U.S. The majority of the world sees the U.S. as the world's biggest threat to world peace, yet I don't see anybody on Hacker News claiming companies shoul