[panick21_]

This is the excuse all American use about literally every single issue anytime anybody points out that other do things better. Most often without actually having thought about it beyond 'muhuhu US BIGGG! USA! USA! USA!'.

If you want to make that argument, actually make it, because if you try, 99% of the time its not actually true, its simply ignorance.

[nozzlegear]

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here except that you take a dim view of Americans.

[hannasanarion]

The point is that flouride has the same effect on your teeth no matter how many hectares of lifeless desert happen to be controlled by your government.

[nozzlegear]

Interesting, though I think you may have missed a good deal of my own point. Regardless, I wasn't actually commenting on the fluoride situation, I was commenting on the belief that American exceptionalism is the reason we don't look at Europe and other countries for a slew of solutions that won't work here. It had nothing to do with fluoride, so I think your comment and hostility are a bit off the mark.

[panick21_]

My point is that those that continually point out 'but some things don't apply to the US because X and Y' are mostly themselves just falling into the same trap and almost never actually explain why X and Y change anything, making their 'defense' just more of the same.