You feel this way because you think there is a solution to human nature (there isn't) and that your developed country and society have a more admirable morality because their political crimes don't look like blue-collar crimes that directly threaten your safety, they're just white-collar crimes to impoverish, restrain, destabilize and control (at home and abroad.) Often they even work within the legal framework.
Re:Ebola: The tolling bell
by lotsofmangos on Saturday October 04, 2014 @04:08AM
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Not letting others govern themselves has largely been the problem. If my country had been fucked around by foreign empires for several hundred years rather than being the one doing the fucking, I'd probably trust my local witch more than outside doctors too.
Also, the distance between the groups you are treating as some sort of homogeneous lump is 4000 miles, or about the same as Washington State to Northern Japan.
Thanks, that is a pretty good argument.
Re:Ebola: The tolling bell
by RVuRnvbM2e on Saturday October 04, 2014 @04:57AM
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> I don't see how we can let these people govern themselves any more.
Many thought the same of Germany in 1945. Be glad that they didn't get their way.
I want a good counter argument to this feeling because it is morally wrong but seems logically sound: between terrorist threatening us at home (they just murdered another british aid worker), ugandas death penalty for homosexuality, out of control ebola in Africa (made a lot worse because these people are too uneducated to trust medical staff, but trust their local community witch) I don't see how we can let these people govern themselves any more.
Like I said I don't want to feel this way, so good logical counter arguments are much appreciated.