What exactly is a literal idiot?
There is The Pit if you’re overwhelmed by urges to call names.
You said:
“…post…suggests that unless a people fight for democracy themselves then they don’t deserve to have it. So… American slaves didn’t deserve democracy since they had to rely upon someone else (the U.S. military) to win it for them.”
You didn’t mention nothin bout no leading anything.
The operative phrases are “unless a people fight for democracy themselves” and “So… American slaves didn’t deserve.” Missing here is the part that connects the two. Why don’t American slaves deserve democracy? The answers in this phrase “unless a people fight for democracy themselves.” If they had fought for democracy for themselves, then they would deserve democracy. Since you instead chose to say “So… American slaves didn’t deserve democracy…” this means that you’re finishing the syllogism that includes, “blacks didn’t fight for democracy.”
It sounds like you meant to say this
“Rashak Mani’s post, which I criticize, suggests that unless a people lead the war that leads to their initial freedom, then they don’t deserve to have it.”
First off, I was clarifying RM’s post, not my own.
Second, I’d say that a signifigant number of Iraqis who are willing to live under a democratic government are unwilling to have it imposed on them.
These’re two seperate things. That’s kind of what RM’s getting at. There’s a difference between democracy and having a governement thrust upon a nation by an outside force.
Japan’s case is markedly different in a number of fundamental ways that render it a less than apt historical analogy for this instance.
Is there some “very good reason” why you’re not trying this in The Pit?
Actually, iteh first sentence really doesn’t address much of anything related to RM’s logic.
“If that isn’t what RM was suggesting then what?” is really just a declaration that you don’t think that RM’s “suggesting” something other than what you’re saying he does.
This is not the same as questioning RM’s logic.
However, even though you’ve stated that you don’t think that RM’s “suggesting” something other than what you’re saying he does, it turns out that that RM’s “suggesting” something other than what you’re saying he does.
Given that you’ve started from a mistaken premise about what RM was “suggesting,” it doesn’t seem that your “hypothetical lines of reasoning” are likely to be very relevant to RM’s actual “line of reasoning.”
This beginning is where things started going awry.
Do you think that the idiosyncratic geographic, geopolitical, cultural, and historical conditions of a country play a role in obtaining “non-corrupt leadership in the early years of development, long-term economic success, and across the board quality-of-life improvement for the citizens?”