Comment by grecy
13 years ago
> If you think you can legitimately compare the living conditions, political environment, and human suffering in North Korea that with the USA, you might have also brainwashed yourself
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.
"It was comparing the USA to every other developed country, where the USA ranks very poorly."
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
It does?
Doesn't Europe have at least one violent ethnic conflict going on at any given time? Usually several?
If the best example of current US performance relative to other developed countries you can think of is "killed fewer people than other protagonists in last century's World Wars" (which is essentially what your cited stats show) you may as well not bother.
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.
Yeah, I rank governments that murder millions of their own people pretty low on the scale of "human rights". Sorry.
Edit: Most of those people weren't "killed in World War II". They were murdered. By their own governments.
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> It does?
Bottom of the list for everything that matters.
http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
"Bottom of the list for everything that matters."
Except for "first choice to which to immigrate", oddly.
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Here's today's:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/at-least-22-peopl...
Don't deny them their straw man.