Haha, true believers. I enjoy this rant against Western governments. The same government that allows you to shoot your mouth off about policies of which you disapprove, the same Western governments that allow you to earn a living in whatever manner you choose, the same Western governments that allow you to post what you want in an electronic forum without fear of reprisal. So, you want to know the difference between the Western governments who lack "moral credibility" and the Chinese who they criticize? Well, your post is still here isnt it and you have unfettered access to the internet. Those are two things Chinese citizens do not have.
Oh and another thing. You shrilly write as if the Western governments are composed of people somehow different from the rest of us. I have news for you. We are the political body established to govern and it is not somehow different from us, it *is* us.
The government (and us) exist for the very reasons you criticize. It exists because we have a culture distinct from these other groups. It exists because we make our own judgments as to what is right, what is wrong, what is good, and what is evil. Finally it exists because we have the ability and the determination to enforce our decisions.
So if you dislike our liberal democratic Western governments and the methods they use to enforce *our* good, consider the alternatives. Perhaps you would like to not own property and not be entitled to the fruits of your labor (as a socialist would). Perhaps you would rather speak Chinese and wonder how it is that all of the people around you have brown eyes and dark brown hair (as in PRC) instead of the diversity of thought and appearance we celebrate in the West. Perhaps you would rather be beaten for supporting the wrong party (as in Zimbabwe). Perhaps you would rather be dead because you don't fit into some totalitarian leader's image of what qualities and skills a citizen should have (as under Nazi rule).
The West exists and lives in all of its diversity and glory today *because* of its skilled application of the use of force, not despite of it.
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Haha, true believers. I enjoy this rant against Western governments. The same government that allows you to shoot your mouth off about policies of which you disapprove, the same Western governments that allow you to earn a living in whatever manner you choose, the same Western governments that allow you to post what you want in an electronic forum without fear of reprisal. So, you want to know the difference between the Western governments who lack "moral credibility" and the Chinese who they criticize? Well, your post is still here isnt it and you have unfettered access to the internet. Those are two things Chinese citizens do not have. Oh and another thing. You shrilly write as if the Western governments are composed of people somehow different from the rest of us. I have news for you. We are the political body established to govern and it is not somehow different from us, it *is* us. The government (and us) exist for the very reasons you criticize. It exists because we have a culture distinct from these other groups. It exists because we make our own judgments as to what is right, what is wrong, what is good, and what is evil. Finally it exists because we have the ability and the determination to enforce our decisions. So if you dislike our liberal democratic Western governments and the methods they use to enforce *our* good, consider the alternatives. Perhaps you would like to not own property and not be entitled to the fruits of your labor (as a socialist would). Perhaps you would rather speak Chinese and wonder how it is that all of the people around you have brown eyes and dark brown hair (as in PRC) instead of the diversity of thought and appearance we celebrate in the West. Perhaps you would rather be beaten for supporting the wrong party (as in Zimbabwe). Perhaps you would rather be dead because you don't fit into some totalitarian leader's image of what qualities and skills a citizen should have (as under Nazi rule). The West exists and lives in all of its diversity and glory today *because* of its skilled application of the use of force, not despite of it.