Oh, Fool I definitely agree it's not a "great thing" at all. It sucks. I've said it before. I guess the difference is indeed the dehumanizing part of it all and maybe that's because I grew up in a society where this whole discussion was over before I got born.
However, I do feel that American society is dealing more with problems like the one depicted in the picture because of the 'American approach' to wealth (we don't have this going on in the Netherlands for instance). America as a society is rougher. There's less assistance by the state in comparison to Western-European countries. I'm not saying we are perfect - we do have our problems - but the way homelessness has been taking shape in America for me has been very painful to see. Especially knowing America's wealth.
So when I see this discussion going on about abortion and believing (yes, believing) that a woman would mostly abort a child because she isn't ready to provide a good life for it.. combined with the fact that trauma and a bad upbringing contribute massively to the problem depictured in the picture.. I just think it's weird to see conservatives who generally don't want to do shit about the problem - at least when it comes to social spending - to be like yeah let's amplify it even more. I do recognize the fact that people do or do not believe in social spending, but then again I'd like to point out the differences between our countries and the systems we have.
so basically you believe in eugenics
youve jumped from one giant, bad faith misrepresentation to another.Alright, so you're going to let me know when the right stops calling everyone who's in favor of lgbt rights pedophiles and child groomers, right?
This is a big mistake on the republicans part. This will cost them seats for sure.
It's a bit of an unfair comparison. The Netherlands is physically no bigger than Maryland, with a population smaller than that of New York. Your population is more homogenous and older than ours. All of those would contribute to a better...ease of management. You also have a culture that encourages contribution to go along side social spending, we do not. Not that you don't have leeches, they inevitably exist, but I feel comfortable believing that its nowhere close to the number we have. We even have leeches within our government siphoning money to line their own pockets with lucrative contracts that produce nothing. Fewer resources get to the people who need legitimate help and boom, homeless everywhere.
How shitty this sounds.
who here agrees that forced sterilization of certain groups at a young age would probably help this world overall?
I agree there are major differences. I've always said that we are "lucky" to don't have the opioid epidemic going on.. let alone meth and fentanyl. I also think this is very much because of us not being next to Mexico which is cartel territory. On the other hand, they've been trying to push these types of drugs hard over here, but it's difficult for them to make 'em popular because we've spent a lot of money on educating the populace when it comes to certain drugs. Heroin is basically being seen as a loser drug over here (still an unfair comparison because we all know the current opioid crisis comes from farmaceutical companies pushing percs etc). Combined with the fact that of course, my country is the main hub when it comes to drugs like xtc, ghb, mdma, amfetamine etc.. they've always been really cheap and accessible over here. So i fully agree that problems are circumstantial.
And I honestly do appreciate your reply. However, we see the same patterns in most Western-European countries. I personally believe it's not because we have "fewer people" or less people being a burden to society. I believe it's because of the way we govern our countries.
That being said.. i do recognise a lot of American spending goes towards the military. A military that keeps us Europeans safe as well.. very much economically. So i do agree comparisonso aren't always fair. I do think there's ways to improve for America when it comes to governance though. Maybe one of those is for Europe to chime in way more when it comes to NATO etc.
Christians?
Sure let's go.
probably not, because that would be really bad for people that need charity money, since Christians are definitely the most giving of the population.
The Netherlands is physically no bigger than Maryland, with a population smaller than that of New York.