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You didn't deserve to be downvoted. Someone said "What a fucked up country" because they have focused and narrowed down into one aspect of the country. Then you pointed out an issue with the USA and no one even comments/replies to you and described why this wouldn't be relevant. It's absolutely relevant. If someone posted this wikipedia article as a top-level HN post and someone said "What a fucked up country" (referring to the USA) it wouldn't still be in black, it would be downvoted to fucking hell.

IF YOU DOWNVOTE YOU NEED TO STATE WHY OTHERWISE WE JUST END UP WITH ONE SIDED DISCUSSION!

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It was a random non sequitur "b-b-but look at how bad XYZ country is" that added nothing. Choose a different hill to die on.

Because it's a bullshit equivalence. Whatever the issues are with the U.S., you have to be a lunatic to somehow see those issues as making the U.S. somehow morally equivalent to a country like the UAE.

And I'm sure somebody will jump in here about how the U.S. has started all these wars and the UAE has not, but that's also a bullshit comparison because the UAE is not the world's superpower. The proper comparison, in that regard, is between the U.S. and previous world super powers, a comparison that comes out heavily in favor of the moral standing of the U.S.

I downvoted it because it was off-topic. When we're talking about the US justice system - which we do fairly regularly - then it's a useful comment. Here it's just a red herring.

And I downvoted you for not understanding that distractions hijack the conversation. A conversation about everything is too unfocused to be a useful conversation about anything. The topic here is Dubai; you're fine with it being hijacked into a conversation about the US justice system. I'm not OK with that. Let us talk about Dubai here; we'll talk about the US justice system plenty of other places.

You sound like Robin Hood

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