Lee Duna to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoAmericans don't want to fight for their country anymorewww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down148
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minus-squareFlying Squidlinkfedilink-3•1 year agoIs it good to beat the shit out of the school bully after he picks a fight with you so he learns to stop picking fights with people? I would say so.
minus-squareFlying Squidlinkfedilink-8•1 year agoThere’s a difference between being a good country and being a global force for good. In helping to defeat the Nazis, the U.S. was a global force for good regardless of what else they did, had done or will do. The same with Stalinist Russia.
minus-squareFlying Squidlinkfedilink2•1 year agoSo it was bad to defeat the Nazis and the Confederates?
minus-squareFlying Squidlinkfedilink3•1 year agoVultures are good. They eat carrion that would otherwise rot. They also generally don’t kill each other. So I’m not sure that your analogy works.
Is it good to beat the shit out of the school bully after he picks a fight with you so he learns to stop picking fights with people? I would say so.
Not if you’re quite similar to that bully
There’s a difference between being a good country and being a global force for good. In helping to defeat the Nazis, the U.S. was a global force for good regardless of what else they did, had done or will do. The same with Stalinist Russia.
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Not really
Bad countries can’t do good things?
If they did they’d be good countries
So it was bad to defeat the Nazis and the Confederates?
Vultures can kill each other
Vultures are good. They eat carrion that would otherwise rot. They also generally don’t kill each other. So I’m not sure that your analogy works.