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| Topic | What's better: A democratic communism - or a capitalist dictatorship? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/14/19 11:55:56 PM #21: | sveksii posted... It's like asking which is better, dying of old age or being murdered. You might have a definitive answer to that question, but in the end you're still dead in both scenarios. That's actually a flawed comparison, because in that case you're usually talking a difference of decades, which DOES make the two scenarios functionally different. Whereas I am suggesting two equally terrible and painful outcomes that operate on generally the same time scale. Unless you change your parameters to be something like "Do you want to die from being stabbed to death or dying of painful cancer?" Because then you've equalized the two in similar fashion. If anything, you're really just proving the point I was making in the first place - if someone asks "Do you want me to kill you one way, or this other way?", the best answer is actually "I would prefer that you don't kill me at all." --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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