Re:SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]
by coldtea on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @07:41AM
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Actually it's not as absolute in any case.
"Greatest" in what sense? Isn't that a value judgement (but without any qualifying arguments)?
If we just talk about numbers, then it's not best in many categories, not even financial ones. Heck, not even in infant mortality (57 other countries fare better).
As for quality of life and actual democracy (as opposed to two parties alternating in power forever and a crazy vote transfer system - gerrymandering), there are several candidates far better in one or the other, and some even in both terms. Switzerland, for one.
Maybe we should just call it "the country with the biggest idea for itself".
IMO, the statement is not as absolute as it first seems. At one point, Rome held that title, about 100 years ago it was Britain, in another 100, it probably will be China.