(February 10, 2016 at 10:58 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote:(February 6, 2016 at 2:30 am)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: What, do you mean we're almost as bad as the British Empire would have been if it had lasted through today, in a world where King George III wasn't an idiot?
EDIT: Oh, pleeeEEEEEZE!!! This shit comes from Australia, that penal colony of the British, which depends on the rest of the world to defend it from multiple hostile cultures which surround it, and was even worse in their regard to the dignity of native human life than the US was 150 years ago? I agree with Julian Assenge, but don't go pretending that you are naturally better people just because your country has never been in the position to become the monster which you despise. On this, Jared Diamond absolutely nailed it - it's geographic factors which make a culture what it is!
Just reading this thread for the first time, the British did send many convicts to Oz. this is true, but we sent far more to the US.
If we had a "penal colony," that title would be better served if given to the US.
Just saying.
And they all got jobs in parliament!
What are the odds! Hehe
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