mistermack wrote:You are pretty desperate for an argument, if you have to go back a hundred years to find one.pErvin wrote:You asked why "should" they. That's why they should. Whether they will is another question.mistermack wrote:Well, I'm living in the present. If you want to reverse history, good luck with that.pErvin wrote:If you want to talk about "shoulds", then we could talk about colonialism and all the wealth the first world stole from the third world. The first world probably "should" pay some of that back.
And it's a shit one.
It's factually correct.
False dichotomy. The conservative's favourite argument.Maybe the world would have been better off without penicillin. Nasty old Britain, inflicting antibiotics on a healthy third world!