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Originally Posted by mjh215
I -really- wanted to discuss this and the latter social topics brought up but to be frank all the piss-on-the-U.S.A. potshots just kills it for me. This country has problems, I tried to start that dialogue earlier on in the thread, but it wasn't a concept of "We have it better" or "They have it better".
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I'm confused. Aren't potshots inanities, trivially true statements, or other types of generalizations that cannot be refuted?
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Originally Posted by mjh215
I believe it is a cultural epidemic that will persist and propagate throughout the world in the years to come regardless of what political group is in power or the basic structure of that government. Again, potshots at particular political groups and schools of logic seem below the standards of this forum. And while trying to formulate my response I just kept feeling the need to address them, and quite frankly I refuse to stoop to the level of insulting everyone from {insert country} or {insert political party} just to get a rise out of people or simply for entertainment.
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What epidemic are you referring to specifically?
Anyway, I'm not criticizing specific parties or ideologies here, I'm criticizing the practice of refusing to take relevant data into consideration when discussing a topic, and when forming an opinion on the relative merits of a society/practice as opposed to another. (Although it
does admittedly bug me when people just say "oh,
I feel that people who don't work don't deserve to be helped by their neighbors", since it presupposes that anyone who doesn't does so by choice.)