Kasz216 on 06 April 2009
| SamuelRSmith said: ^Well, I don't agree with the idea of having democracies and non-democracies, I'd say that there are varying levels of democracy - I mean, look at two of the "freeist" countries in the world - the US and the UK. The US is renown for its corruption, and the UK has a Monarch and an unelected upper chamber (though there power dwindles with every decade that passes)! You also seem to be of the view that democracy = good, dictatorship = bad. Not all dictators are evil, and not all democratically-elected leaders are good (though, of course, there is a strong correlation). I personally think that different countries should get different veteoing powers on different matters. Some countries SE Asia may want something to happen, but a bordering country might have a negative effect from it. This issue doesn't concern any of the major powers, but some of the smaller countries might have benefited from the veto power, instead. Anyway, that wasn't my beef with the UN, mine is that the institution is so large that it is out of touch with the real world, and it can't do anything forceful because it has to keep all members happy (like when there's a war on, instead of sending in troops to defend the good guys, they just do non-biased operations that don't have the biggest of effects). |
The US is renown for corruption? Does renown mean something else in the UK?
Either way as far as corruption goes. The US is about equal corruption wise to the EU.. and in comparison to the rest of the world.....
