The truth about Beijing Olympics (2 Viewers)
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I say if you're capable of critical thinking, that's better than not capable at all. The day may come when you turn the spotlight on yourself.
Although after your reply I have even less of a grasp of what your grievance is. Just a general statement against hypocrisy? Why is that the order of the day?
Although after your reply I have even less of a grasp of what your grievance is. Just a general statement against hypocrisy? Why is that the order of the day?
I did not deflect the discussion. All what I did was asking Seven a question to know how serious he is in criticizing all the political faults all over the world and not only in China, and he succeeded in proving exactly what I thought in advance.
The whole discussion is not my cup of tea, but seeing a continuous criticizing for one party and not condemning the other parties who do the same thing is just very wrong IMO.
The whole discussion is not my cup of tea, but seeing a continuous criticizing for one party and not condemning the other parties who do the same thing is just very wrong IMO.
There is a very useful and wise rule of thumb for situations like this. It goes like so.
"Judge a country by how it treats its own citizens."
According to which, the US is getting worse by the month (mostly because of new laws to "protect people"), which I personally have bashed vigorously on this forum for a long time now.
"Judge a country by how it treats its own citizens."
According to which, the US is getting worse by the month (mostly because of new laws to "protect people"), which I personally have bashed vigorously on this forum for a long time now.
Look, the majority of discussion around here revolves around how bad the United States happens to be. I don't defend all of our policies and criticize my own government and people to high heaven because this stuff angers me quite a lot, how people can be so stupid.
But what also angers me is people such as Rebel, Tahir, and others deflecting arguments towards the United States that doesn't really have any bearing in what we're talking about here. It's all too common to have people bring up the atrocities the US commits when there is no reason to. If you want to decide who should castigate whom by means of being "sinless" as a nation, you'll fall into the trap of being a hypocrite because all nations have been involved with atrocities in the past.
So stick to the topic. Both China and the United States have done some terrible things, but at least we don't slaughter our own people. Yes, that makes us better than China. End of story.
But what also angers me is people such as Rebel, Tahir, and others deflecting arguments towards the United States that doesn't really have any bearing in what we're talking about here. It's all too common to have people bring up the atrocities the US commits when there is no reason to. If you want to decide who should castigate whom by means of being "sinless" as a nation, you'll fall into the trap of being a hypocrite because all nations have been involved with atrocities in the past.
So stick to the topic. Both China and the United States have done some terrible things, but at least we don't slaughter our own people. Yes, that makes us better than China. End of story.
good point Andy, I think the problem is that the US tends to tell the rest of the world how they should do things, they meddle too much in other nations' affairs
for instance they say they want democracy in Iraq -although everybody knows it is for oil- but they forget Iraq has never had a democracy
you know what I mean, America tells everybody how they should do things while their own example is far from flawless and that is what annoys a lot of people
for instance they say they want democracy in Iraq -although everybody knows it is for oil- but they forget Iraq has never had a democracy
you know what I mean, America tells everybody how they should do things while their own example is far from flawless and that is what annoys a lot of people
I did not mention anything related to USA and Israel in this thread today. I even did not take part in the discussion until Seven said something derogatory about all the Muslims.
I couldn't care less about the whole subject because I feel that the majoirty in this universe don't care about such stupid games because they have bigger problems to take care of. But having that sentence about Muslims made me react.
I couldn't care less about the whole subject because I feel that the majoirty in this universe don't care about such stupid games because they have bigger problems to take care of. But having that sentence about Muslims made me react.
