RE: Would you rather live under an oppressive religious or securlar government?
January 18, 2013 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2013 at 3:09 pm by Anomalocaris.)
It's possible for an oppressive secular government to use oppression to build the foundations of development, and even of civil society. Examples of such are numerous: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore. I have not found a single case of an oppressive religious government that, through religious oppression, did any good.
Yeah? Anyone with unfettered access to high temperature alloys could have made that developmental dead end appear to work for a few years.
Where do you find descendants of Rolls Royce centrifugal turbojets today? German developed axial turbo jets, on the other hand, exercises total dominion in the world of jets for the last 50 years.
(January 18, 2013 at 2:21 pm)jonb Wrote:(January 18, 2013 at 8:58 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Well babe, they did have some pretty cool toys.....
Yes, but the Rolls Royce made toys at the same time that actually worked.
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Yeah? Anyone with unfettered access to high temperature alloys could have made that developmental dead end appear to work for a few years.
Where do you find descendants of Rolls Royce centrifugal turbojets today? German developed axial turbo jets, on the other hand, exercises total dominion in the world of jets for the last 50 years.
