What about when people vote against their own interests?
They have the right to do so.
What about when the majority suppresses minorities?
That is a bad thing. But talk about a dictatorship?? That’s one person suppressing everybody else.
Dictatorships are not intrinsically bad.
You can have good dictators, even if they are rare.
Hard disagree there.
But it really depends on what you value as good and bad.
For instance, if you think that people have an inherent right to have a say in how they are governed, then a dictatorship can never be good because it infringes on that right in the most serious of ways.
If you think a stable and sustainable system of government that will last beyond the life of a few leaders is important, then dictatorship is not a good system, because one good dictator creates no guarantee that the next dictator will be good, and establishing a system of dictatorship affords a bad dictator that much more power to ruin lives.
The author wasn’t making a logical argument, so there’s no need to address his “logic.”
He’s a tourist who spent some time in a foreign country, and came to some very sweeping, rash conclusions about an entire country’s culture. It’s shallow, judgmental, and tragically commonplace among self-centered tourists who think they can understand an entire culture after 2 weeks living in a hotel on someone else’s dime. I am so done with the “white dude waxes philosophical about Asian country” trope.
“It is the result of Korea maximizing the bad points of Confucian culture and the shortcomings of capitalism.”
"In Confucian culture, there are no individuals…
"In Confucian culture, we do not try to empathize with mental health problems…
"When you learn Korean culture…
I love when tourists (let’s be real: rich, white, American tourists) visit a country and come back a fucking expert on the culture, filled with all the judgmental wisdom to dish out why that culture is inferior to their own.
Fuck this clown and his “wisdom.”
It’s going to be weird not seeing his face on every police box in the country anymore.
“The opposite.” So… China has moved 800 million people into extreme poverty?
Assault is not free speech.
Just so you’ve had the experience of meeting one, I am an American who is for banning guns.
Not interested in American opinion regrading this one
Kind of shitty to assume that all Americans have the same opinion, no?
I would think a parent this irresponsible would do more damage to the kid being around than not being around. The fact that she showed no remorse for what she did doesn’t bode well for how she’d raise the kid.
These are the guys who have been auto-fellating over a second civil war for the past 15 years, and they’re worried about it now??
“Can’t they just abandon their homes, lives, and everything they know and move en masse over 1000 km to somewhere else?”
Really??
The fuck are you talking about?
You’re replying to things I didn’t say. Are you hearing voices or something?
Try again. Do better.