[fancybouncy]

who decides who the good guys are? if you get a good anthropology book, you'll find plenty of societies that value violence (to varying degrees). in fact, you don't even need an anthropology book, just open the old testament.

[tdeck]

Apparently a blog post by 3 economists and a professor of finance decides.

[astrange]

They probably don't include Pol Pot, who Chomsky defended on the usual anti-imperialist basis that anything American is bad and anything not American is good.

[yakshaving_jgt]

It’s hard not to invoke Godwin’s Law at this point.

To me it seems self evident and non-controversial to all but the sneeriest of intellectuals, that some people are just bad.

[CamperBob2]

who decides who the good guys are?

Simple. Look at the guards at the border. Are they employed because people keep trying to sneak into the country, or out of it?