Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
by empath75 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @08:08AM
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People who say stuff like this forget that Europe nearly destroyed itself through war twice in just the last hundred years— and followed it up with an arms race that put the entire planet at risk of extinction. It was only the threat of nuclear annihilation that stopped Europeans from murdering each other on an industrial scale.
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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
by saiya-jin on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @08:30AM
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You are badly mixing up sides in nuclear race a bit, we europeans were bystanders compared to US-Russia race and never really caught up with neither of them.
Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
by empath75 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @08:43AM
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France and the UK both built nuclear weapons. They didn’t have the resources to build more than they did or they would have. But that wasn’t really my point. I was merely pointing out that the so called civilized west is responsible for far more misery and death than any nation in the developing world could even aspire to at this point.
It’s not that the Europeans are uniquely horrible people, only that the current era of peace and cooperation in the west is a historical aberration.