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Is Communism the worst? Or national socialistsm is the worst?
Drydess:
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on December 18, 2017, 04:53:58 PM ---qin shi huang also was drinking lead-contaminated water and mercury in an attempt to live forever; he isn't really a great equivalency because he was actually insane, not just evil like Mao
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look at what mao said and did and tell me he isn't psychotic
mao's a forgetin moron. you can live in a perfect capitalist society today and have dipstuffs elected and harm society in its cores and the fact that it's capitalist has hardly anything to do with it. if you're conservative, look at obama, if you're liberal look at Annoying Orange
Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: Drydess on December 18, 2017, 04:54:52 PM ---look at what mao said and did and tell me he isn't psychotic
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We don't have any psychological evaluations so we can't be sure about Mao.
But drinking lead and mercury daily for decades 100% will give you brain damage, and it killed Qin Shi Huang eventually.
Planr:
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on December 18, 2017, 04:44:06 PM ---In reference to leadership. I see no moral distinction between negligently creating famine and genocide. The end result of both is the same.
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There is a moral distinction in terms of relevant intent. One is careless and doesn't intend to kill civilians while the other is careful and deliberately plans the deaths of civilians. The end result is different. For example people living in communist countries can sometimes still grow their own food and survive, if they have land. My economics professor last semester grew up in rural communist poland, and his family beat the food quotas by growing their own food. Under a genocidal dictatorship they wouldn't have had a chance.
Mouse droidz 21:
Dictatorship in any country has usually proven to be a disaster. For example Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Riddler, Stalin, Castro and even today's Mugabe (even though he was just over thrown), any form of dictatorship doesn't work just look at Syria and Iraq also
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Mouse droidz 21 on December 18, 2017, 04:58:34 PM ---Dictatorship in any country has usually proven to be a disaster. For example Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Riddler, Stalin, Castro and even today's Mugabe (even though he was just over thrown), any form of dictatorship doesn't work just look at Syria and Iraq also
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this is why i think threads like this are dumb. the op could be reworked into 'which pile of dogstuff smells worse?' and people would still argue about it