Even though I understood what you meant you didn't make yourself clear enough as to not interpret it another way.

Minors are people (this is a douche like comment similar to what you write)

Human rights are fiction

Money and sex are overrated

Divine intervention.

Sort of a historical one:

The world would be a better place today had Germany won WWI.

Smoke free hahaha

Australia enormous illicit drugs problem says high

Okay, we're going to need an explanation for this one :lol:

I can see what his thinking is, but really it should say 'The world would be a better place had the allies not punitively enforced German reparations following WWI.'

I don't have a problem with that. People don't regularly smoke that in public places.

No WWI --> No rise of fascism + No rise of communism -> No USA vs. USSR --> No meddling in the Middle-East (because we didn't break up the Ottomans) --> No 9/11 + No ISIS

Contrary to what you may think, WWI was not anywhere near as "bad" or vitriolic as WWII - it was the last vestige of the "Romance of War". Of course, the fighting itself was worse for soldiers in WWI, but if you were a civilian living under German rule would be almost exactly the same as living under French or British rule.

Also, had WWI not have happened you might still see monarchies/empires today (which might be a good/bad thing depending on your POV). At the very least the Romanovs wouldn't have been massacred and Britain would still probably have possessions overseas.

And of course that's not to mention the millions of young men we sent charging at machine guns.

Edited by 433: 8/4/2016 06:27:41 PM

Woahhhhh there are some big leaps in logic there. Socialism was already on the rise in Russia.
You don't think France, Belgium and others might been unhappy about being taken over and fought back?
Also, the Ottoman Empire was already in severe decline.

On the rise yes, but only came to fruition when Germany sent over Lenin to incite a revolt.



I'd disagree they'd be "taken over". They'd just be made vassal states and forced to pay a levy of some sort. I doubt they'd have minded enough to "fight back", the governments of WWI were relatively similar and benign.

WWI Germany and Nazi Germany are hugely different behemoths, so a French resistance would not have occurred in WWI like you saw in WWII>



In decline yes, but I doubt it would've fractured worse than what we split it up into. Had it been allowed to split up, I'd assume you'd see the same thing you saw with India/Pakistan - the Sunni's go to one area and the Shia's go to another.

An interesting note would be that without WWII you wouldn't see the creation of a Jewish state, which is the cause of much of the current angst in the region.

Statements like this really don't make sense anyway because the counterfactual is impossible to predict - we'd have a whole range of other conflicts and problems that we can't even conceive of, and it's impossible to know if they'd be any better/worse than what we have now.

Sorry 433, read that as "The world would be a better place had Germany won WWII" :lol:

Thought you were going full Nazi :oops:

star wars the force awakens was worse than the prequels
George W Bush was better than reagan and bill clinton
obama is the best since johnson
the dark ages and the middle ages would be a much better time to live than the early modern period
ancient rome was worse than nazi germany
mormons are gradually becoming less cultish (controlling)
television doesn't rot your brain
political correctness probably makes racism worse by shifting focus to words and social faux pars and away from institutional racism and the empathy gap
its morally wrong not to give to charity if you have any money for luxuries
the world won't end with global warming - probably result in a few hundred million deaths a mere fraction of the worlds population
non-scientific pro environmental groups can be deceptive - though not as deceptive as the anti
Christians in the USA face mild discrimination and not just a "loss of priveledge"
matlidextrose and dextrose are worse than sugar
coconut oil is bad for you
there is no cosmetic advantage to a girl being size four (typical for models)
gluten intolerance is probably rare
pro vegan information is very unreliable
mein kampf is an informative read (don't worry I hate his political views lol. But its important history)
ewoks is the best cartoon ever
the quran does not appear to promote violence more than default human nature
cadbury chocolate tastes bad
israel seems to face unfair treatment from its neighbours but palestine seems to face unfair treatment from israel
first person shooters are boring
british and australian fiction is better than american

The Cold War was a period of almost unprecedented peace in the world.

You are a certified idiot.

What's new?

A sugar tax is a good idea.

Couldn't agree more.

I need to sugar tax my bloody self :lol:

Medical costs that the smokers are on our system. Still a financial interest to stop people smoking.

On a. Interesting aside. Nicotine patches being used to HELP treat depression and similar mental health problems in non smokers has been quite successful.

Same here :lol: I'm pretty bad at cutting down on sugar.

a) Long, protracted war that leads to the deaths of millions and the creation of an even worse conflict + genocide.
b) Europe maintains its hegemony over the world and it enters another era of relative peace like it saw between 1815-1914.

Pick one.

I bet you think Germany was the "bad guy" of WWI.

Edited by 433: 8/4/2016 09:53:46 PM

It's a shit idea because you're just punishing low socio-economic people who struggle to eat anywhere else.

Western Europe, central Europe, Southern Europe and Scandinavia will be Islamic dominated by the end of this century.

Edited by 433: 8/4/2016 10:09:12 PM

No one forces those fucking plebs to buy a bottle of coke though.

Fracking is far less harmful than people think.

This we can agree on.

Liberal voters should be deported to Nauru.

The greens somewhere with an active volcano.

They literally won't exist in 100 years. It's great.