Generally when someone murders one person we regard them as a horrid individual we don't say their not that bad because they only killed 1 instead of 10 like that Ted Bundy guy.
I didn't say I was living in a police state, the country I live in hasn't executed anyone in 40 years, and we certainly didn't think it was a big deal to destroy our nuclear weapons arsenal, stop stockpiling nuclear weapons, or ban landmines. I simply said we should stop hosting websites in countries with numerous years of history of horrid human rights abuse. Imagine living in a country where as recently at 1960 that certain classes of people were forbidden from eating lunch with other classes of people.
I find your definition of police state interesting, would you say that NK would stop being a police state with different emigration policies?
Sure. Germany and Russia to name just two. Several European countries in degree if not in sheer magnitude.
Edit: Oh I get it, if you you don't say what country you can pretend they are perfect. Brilliant.
From all countries with nuclear weapon 40 years without death penalty match only UK.
The parent comment wasn't comparing NK to the USA.
It was comparing the USA to every other developed country, where the USA ranks very poorly.
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It does?
Doesn't Europe have at least one violent ethnic conflict going on at any given time? Usually several?
n.b. I'm sure Rummel would grudgingly admit that the US is far worse than any other developed country for committing acts of "democide" this century. In fact it's probably the only metric in which a sane person could argue the US might have performed worse than North Korea in recent years.
Edit: Most of those people weren't "killed in World War II". They were murdered. By their own governments.
I fully expect the current Eurozone crisis to devolve into bloodshed before it's over, by the way.
You seem only interested in comparing the US to undeveloped and developing countries, which is not a useful comparison.
Why not compare the US to developed countries?
Bottom of the list for everything that matters.
Except for "first choice to which to immigrate", oddly.
It's called "voting with your feet".
If the U.S. had the same immigration policies as, say, Canada or Australia, you could add an order of magnitude to those numbers. Easily.
Ok, maybe not, but you can compare the two. The US is not getting better.
In NK you'd be lucky to get 1 meal a day. Over here poor people are morbidly fat.
And at the end of the day, you're not a prisoner, if you hate it here so much, you can leave this country any day you want to. But can't say the same for people in NK.