re: Most Dangerous Cities - hhhmmm

Can't believe Shreveport isn't on there, seems like we have shootings and killings every day.

The ATL should be top 10.

Who’s to say they wouldn’t have? Or that they needed to? Does every country need to generate some kind of resource for the rest of the world? Are you a globalist?

If your argument is that, say, Belgium was justified in committing genocide and putting an entire population into slavery in the Congo just so the world could have more rubber, then this conversation isn’t going anywhere. We have different moral compasses.

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Who’s to say they wouldn’t have? Or that they needed to? Does every country need to generate some kind of resource for the rest of the world? Are you a globalist?

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definitely not

i’d much rather each country be left alone to develop at its own pace, and not have their populations invade other nations to exploit them and thrir resources (or have their populations swarm to nations with superior infrastructure to take advantage of their altruism)

sadly, human nature isnt like that

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If your argument is that, say, Belgium was justified in committing genocide and putting an entire population into slavery in the Congo just so the world could have more rubber, then this conversation isn’t going anywhere.

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not my argument at all

likewise, if your argument is that all peoples possess equal abilities for societal organization and technological advancement, and that because Belgium put the entire Congo population into slavery a couple of centuries ago that the Congolese (and pretty much every other non-European in the world) now deserve the right to the wealth and property of modern Belgians as compensation, effectively destroying Belgian society, then you’re absolutely correct, we do have different moral compasses

Port Morseby is dangerous? Never would have guessed. I only knew of the City because I’m a WWII nerd.

The usual suspects

What’s funny?

Anyone who believes Memphis, TN is the 9th most dangerous city on earth is dangerously gullible and/or straight up insane.

Copy, so you have never read a book or have a modicum of understanding of history. As I’ve laid out a couple times in this thread, feel free to google the phrase “United States and Jonas Savimbi” and come back.

You learn something new every day.

This is misleading. There are almost 7,000,000 people in the incorporated area of Santiago, Chile versus less than 500,000 in the incorporated area of Atlanta. So yes, maybe crime in Atlanta proper, per capita, is on par with Santiago, or a little worse. Crime in the overall Atlanta Metro (which also contains about 7,000,000 people) most definitely is not. Frankly, the fact that Santiago proper is roughly as dangerous as the innermost, most urban part of Atlanta doesn't reflect very well on Santiago. Atlanta's not all sunshine and rainbows, but at least I can drive around Dunwoody or Forsyth County and not face the same risk of violent crime as I would Downtown.