[quote]orion wrote:
pat wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
orion wrote:
pat wrote:
Yes you cannot argue with facts and the fact is that the U.S. has helped far more people than it has hurt. That that is a fact you can verify repeatedly.
How?
We can count the ones killed and maimed, but how do we count those that have been helped?
Do we count those you think you have helped or those that actually agree that you have helped them? I do not expect those numbers do be the same.
How many people must have been “helped” and to what degree in order to justify one person killed by the US military or an embargo and does it matter how that person died, i.e. quick and painless or burning alive?
And, once you have come up with a system, would you be willing to apply it to American citizens or would you tar and feather any senator who would come up with such an idea?
"Well Ladies and Gentleman, using our formula we have found out that by killing 53378 Texans, bombing half of Minnesota and burning 2876,5 New Yorkers alive, life will be better for the rest of us.
Let´s get to it and God bless America!"
How? We stopped your country from its horrible deeds.
Yeah! Cooking Jews in ovens was all noble and all, but you know we had to move on when was dicovered that Judaism is not the root of all evil.
I am waiting for your formula, for you said one could verify that.
Please tell me how to go about something like that and awe me by reinterpreting the problem that value is subjective in a way that allows for that.
And yes, Austria is ebil, but how ebil are we, in numbers, according to your formula?
We could have an ebil index, where the US is 1 and everyone else is measured as a percentage of that.
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For one you can count the amount of money that the U.S. has sent in aid around the world. When we do go to war with a country, we rebuild it and give it aid and support. The amount of missions are countable. The number of people treated for many conditions around the world is almost uncountable. Our efforts to combat epidemics and pandemics around the world is uncountable.
So really the amount of good the U.S. has done through out time is really not quantifiable. We have done so much, it is incomprehensible and cannot be counted.