Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by anigbrowl on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:09PM
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Why isn't Japan famous for rudeness then? Don't introduce new arguments in your response.
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by artificialLimbs on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:38PM
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Unsure how this whataboutism has anything to do w/ what I said.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by anigbrowl on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:30PM
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No you're not. Japan is famously not a 'well armed society', but does have a reputation for politeness. This is directly at variance with your evidence-free claim.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by artificialLimbs on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:32PM
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I did not claim a polite society can't exist without weapons.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by anigbrowl on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:19AM
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I could equally ask why any of many heavily armed societies are not oases of peace and tranquility. The USA should be the most polite nation on earth, by your metric. It obviously isn't, though.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by sixstringtheory on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:25PM
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The Nanjing Massacre and Bataan Death March are pretty famous examples of rudeness. Couldn't it be argued that the USSR declaring war on them at the same time as the US dropped two atomic bombs on them are examples of arms curtailing rudeness?
Also TIL about the massacres of Korean civilians after the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Great_Kantō_earthquake#En...