Recent content by Lictor Face

The point I am highlighting is that America was inefficient and ultimately failed in containing the riots. The fact that it lasted beyond the first 'wave' of riots is disgraceful and does not show that America is capable of protecting its citizens. Perhaps the source I used was wrong regarding...

The same could be said of your opinions.

It appears I'm not quite getting to you. So this should sum it up. Moral failure is acceptable failure. ~ Once again I don't disagree that there is poor social progress. But your arguments on how a nation can fall from not having equal rights for homosexuals and transfolk have yet to...

On the contrary, I'm sure Westerners could learn quite a bit from us. Here's an example. Ferguson riots. A young black man was shot by law enforcement and resulted in a riot where 400 people took part in, resulting in widespread destruction and looting, costing more than $4 million...

Other than a vocal few, most of us are quite alright with that. whether that's right or not is up for debate. Like I said, its a grim little utopia minded by an iron-fisted matron who thinks little of children. If you were looking solely at the rights of transgenders, I suppose it would...

You are seriously using primary school and secondary school experiences to grade a country on how racist they are? I don't know what's more pathetic. That you're citing it to me as an "easy" example, or that your source's author considers having foundation that matches her skin tone to be a sign...

You can easily protect and provide for your citizens while curtailing or even violating certain human rights. Freedom of speech for example. They're not primary or secondary, I would say that they are both equally important, but occasionally one is more urgent than the other. Say in times...

Two purposes. 1. As you said. Protect and provide for its citizens 2. To strengthen and improve itself so as to better achieve 1. The priority of the two are interchangeable, but ultimately linked. As much as I'd like to discuss, this really isn't the thread for it. Maybe on a...

Do not mistake me for being willingly naive, I do not appreciate that, and it is unbecoming to assume just because I give appropriate information on the topic at hand. I am very much aware of the trafficking industry revolving around kidnappings and children in Asia and the various syndicates...

The problem I've always had with a republic is that people are generally selfish and short-sighted, and would vote on leaders who benefit their own little sphere of existence, rather than the nation as a whole. Perhaps its a Western thing to be patriotic and want a strong country and so on, but...

I'm asian and live in Singapore, lad. Your...."white male privilege" does not apply to me at all. I've never liked how westerners enjoy forcing their ideologies on their asian counterparts anyway. What works there or may be apparent there does not mean the same is true on the other side of...

Oh you wound my national pride sir. But to respond to this will open up an entirely new and largely irrelevant can of worms to the topic of "Gender recogntion offence" that this thread is meant for. But here's a clue. I personally feel that concern for human rights can be an obstacle to...

A grim but not entirely incorrect comparison. I'm pretty sure if our leaders were in the same situation as the american gov was during world war 2, they'd probably do the same.

Fair enough. I didn't know that. No political system is full proof, so I can live with that. The most effective political system is a benevolent dictatorship afterall, like the Kallipolis but less extreme. And even so, the Kallipolis traded prosperity, development, education and all types of...

We forbid polygamy too, there's a law against it, that means Mormonism is unpracticable in this country. Hell Mormons that practice polygamy are persecuted and charged in the court of law accordingly.They're a minority, and their right to practice their religious customs is already being...