It's popular to hate the US government and US tech companies, but the US government and US tech companies are far more ethical than the Chinese.
It's ridiculous to assert otherwise.
It's ridiculous to assert otherwise.
Did the Chinese government spend the last century toppling democratically elected governments and subjecting the populations to the horrors that followed purely for economic gain?
I guess not.
Or the "humanitarian" invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia and Syria without UN Security Council mandate. Especially Lybya, which is much more democratic now with it's slave markets.
Or the protectionism that goes against the WTO treaties.
Or by weaponizing the dollar, which is supposed to be the world's reserve currency, by the means of sanctions.
Should I mentions the use of nuclear weapons and napalm against targets with dense civilian population close by?
China, Russia and the US are all draconian regimes. Some target it's own people, other target people overseas and others target both.
The difference is that one has holywood at it's side to show them saving the world time and time again from aliens, metheors and vile russians / nazis. And people just treat the US government as the good heart kid that makes a few mistakes.
I find China a bit chaotic and Russia too conservative for me (although St. Petersbourg seemed a really cool place).
I'm very critic of the US government, especially regarding foreign policy, but that does not mean I have a problem with regular Americans at all.
On the contrary there are lots o very important initiatives started by Americans. I just wish the focus of the government would shift to them.
To disprove that claim: try to come up with an ethical framework which makes no mention of a higher power as justification, and tell us why it is better than all others. Most land on some variant of utilitarianism and then disagree what the objective function should be.
Maybe it's like a C and a program stack, they just don't teach it in college anymore, because it's not important and you don't need to know about it.
There is a reason the statue of Lin Zexu is in Chatham Square, NYC.