Quote from: theymos on December 03, 2019, 08:43:21 PM

Quote from: malevolent on December 03, 2019, 01:34:08 AM

He might be one of those /r/LateStageCapitalism far leftists, seeing the DPRK as a lesser evil to the imperialist USA.

Maybe. The US has probably done more evil than any other country in history, so it's easy to view it as "The Evil Empire". But it's only done so much evil because it's long been by far the most powerful country. If North Korea, Iran, or China were as powerful as the US, they'd do even more evil because they are built upon more evil ideologies, and they are more authoritarian. Unless you can somehow chart a very clear path between your actions and some wider utilitarian good, IMO it's not morally justifiable to help these oppressive regimes.

I'll be interested to see what this guy has to say for himself.

Yet again, I agree with Theymos. Still waiting for a time to see if we'll disagree.

But yeah -- there's no way to stay in power this long while being goody goody to everyone around ya. But at the end of the day, I would never say that the US is on par with countries that have willingly caused atrocities such as Nazi Germany.

I do think that this guy was in the wrong though, we'll see what the case ends up looking like though.