There can't be any country with more human rights abuses than...the United States. America should shut up and stop complaining about Iraq and China and look at how bad the United States has been.
I fully agree with you, I used China only as an example of our double-standards. America's own history is more than spotty, it's downright black. We should acknowledge it and our first priority should be cleaning up our own act, so to speak, but that doesn't mean we should condone China or Iraq or any country just because they are making the same mistakes we have made and are making.
Gee, I sure see plenty of them running as fast as they can to get on the first boat to America they can afford. I guess they dont quite agree with you.
You'll see people fleeing to and from wherever you go, regardless of whether you find the conditions good or bad. One man's paradise is another's nightmare, government notwithstanding. Because people flee from Singapore does not mean there aren't those pleased to be there. Because people flee from China does not mean there aren't those pleased to be there. Because people flee from the US does not mean there aren't those pleased to be there, you prove this yourself.
A democracy is not good to all, no more than a dictatorship is. If everyone was in agreement there would be no need of either one. Not to mention "democracy" and "dictatorship" are only words. It's foolish to think every country that calls itself a democracy is one. Even America, while it may idealize one, isn't a democracy by any stretch of the mind. Likewise, few countries governed by dictators are truly dictatorships. What works out on paper rarely does in life, true government is much more free-flowing and adaptive than that. A "dictatorship" can be just as successful as a "democracy", a "democracy" can be just as corrupt as a "dictatorship". This isn't a western, no one's wearing a white hat.
In short, the idea that people flee from dictators is a simple one and a very arrogant one. People flee from poor conditions, be it poverty or famine or social oppression-- conditions that are not localized to any one type of government and not global to all peoples of that government.
We are the country that's full of wimps concerned about the rights of mass murders and give them luxourious prison cells to live in. Soon, if not already, you will have activist groups marching that it's inhumane to shoot the enemy in battle. What would they have us do? Chunk water balloons at them?
You're a very close-minded man, Webdude. I know you don't think this of yourself, I've read many of the threads you've participated in, but you truly are. You see only one side, it's always us and them. It's important that you understand there are viewpoints different from yours. You may disagree with them on all counts and believe them wholly misguided, but you must at least accept them and understand there are those that do agree with them. It's not us and them, you shouldn't close yourself off and irreverently jab at and make light of your self-made enemies. Keep an open mind and don't turn away ideas because they don't follow your own.
Everyone is guilty of arrogance; it's a flaw common to all of us, don't feel I'm singling you out. If you see it, you can get beyond it and hope to find understanding, but arrogance that goes without being acknowledged only perpetuates itself. If you ask me, this is America's problem. America is arrogant. America is very arrogant. It's easy enough for others to see it, and see it they have, but it takes a decided effort for each individual American to see it in themselves, and it's a terribly frightful sight few want to chance finding.
I hope you understand and don't take offense. Even if you do take offense outwardly, I hope you've at least had pause.
