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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

With that said, the western world, organized largely in accord with liberal values which I share, has been not just the best place to live in all of human history but also the most powerful in this sense.

Hard [X] Doubt on that one.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What would be the better place to live in human history?

    I mean, we can truthfully say it's damnation by faint praise to say as much, but I struggle to think of a better time.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Oh he's saying the Western world today is better than living anywhere else in human history. Yeah that's not unreasonable but also a bit of a pointless comparison. I'd rather be well off in several non Western countries than be poor in a Western country, especially America.

    My initial interpretation was that the Western world has always been the best place to live in human history which is a hard sell to say the least.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    My initial interpretation was that the Western world has always been the best place to live in human history which is a hard sell to say the least.

    Ah, yeah, that would be extremely questionable at best.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Punt Empire. An empire so antithetical to Western values that the British Library sponsored a genocidial campaign in Africa to erase evidence of its existence.

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