You’re taking this way too personally. Although I admit maybe it sounds like me and others have been taking it personally as well during this thread- but lets throw that aside who cares. The argument is- it seems like you think the Iranian government is more dangerous and unruly than the US government- which is a point that people can’t wrap their heads around. I definitely can’t.
^^ Yup, he’s blinded by his patriotic sense of moral superiority to the fact that his country is the largest terrorist organization in the world and only to detonate nukes in a metropolitan area.
It isn’t worth it to argue with such irrational people.
Not to mention that the talk about nukes is mostly irrelevant. Ordinary bombing done by the american military/government has killed way more people than atomic bombs.
But of course, since this is propaganda, nukes are a nice element that enhances “storytelling”.
Actually I thought it was pretty well implied in that post that I’ve kind of given up on this topic. I’m just disappointed that people who should understand the difference between marginal and categorical choices should be so demanding of others that they categorically reject any and all forms of and actions of the state when, if someone were to analogously ask them to choose between all water or all diamonds, their first response would be to point out how unrealistic and thus irrelevant such a choice is in the real world. People make political choices much as they do all other choices; on the margins. There is, at base, no difference between you, LS, or anyone else out there who advocates for a smaller state or none at all except the degree and scope of compromises you’re willing to make to live in the world with some degree of comfort. To me it’s analogous to steroid users who think weed smokers belong in prison, and weed smokers who think steroid users belong in prison. Both end up getting screwed by the same policy and enemy, but because each is so preoccupied with their differences and trying to rationalize their drug use while demonizing the use of another, they stay separated and ineffective rather than joining forces to fight a common enemy.