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by monsterix 4576 days ago
What jingoistic people like you don't understand is that the ability to tolerate criticism is equally important.

> You can't ask people to just eat, reproduce and die, living just above the poverty line. That is worse than poverty.
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cscurmudgeon 4576 days ago
> What jingoistic people like you don't understand is that the ability to tolerate criticism is equally important.

Don't you realize the same thing can be said about you :)

I criticized your criticism and you went all "jingoistic nut" on me. Sigh.

The problem is for any good action X that any government does as long as it has any side effect other than getting people out of poverty, it would get criticized as unnecessary. That leaves out only giving money to people directly.

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monsterix 4576 days ago
No, I just pointed out the jingoism evident from this line:

> You can't ask people to just eat, reproduce and die, living just above the poverty line. That is worse than poverty.

What do those line mean? Who asked people to just eat, reproduce and die? How is something worse or better than poverty I do not know.

> it would get criticized as unnecessary. That leaves out only giving money to people directly.

No where in the parent comment or on this complete conversation it has been said that expenditure on Mangalyaan is unnecessary or wasteful. In fact it is the opposite that I said on the parent comment. Where did you read this?

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cscurmudgeon 4576 days ago
> What do those line mean? Who asked people to just eat, reproduce and die? How is something worse or better than poverty I do not know.

If you can't understand that, I don't know what to say. Ask yourself this: why should poverty be reduced? The same rationale can be applied to why we need "space wizardry."

> No where in the parent comment or on this complete conversation it has been said that expenditure on Mangalyaan is unnecessary or wasteful.

How about this:

> No space wizardry, just basic engineering.

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