This is why people hate America

[Chad32]

It says he's against being affiliated with groups. He judges by individual, and hates groups.

[Edwardo Piet]

It says he's against being affiliated with groups. He judges by individual, and hates groups.

Which ISN'T bullshit.

[Amarok]

Frankly the only thing that has pissed me off about(A person who is American) America recently [...]

Yes, I already read this, and this is where you're making a category error. A person who is American pissing you off is not a reason to be pissed off about America.  It is a reason to be pissed off about the person.

If you're pissed off at a person, write that you're pissed off at that person. Write what you mean. It's really very simple once you get the hang of it.

But the thread is about America and stuff realated to it .

[Chad32]

It says he's against being affiliated with groups. He judges by individual, and hates groups.

Which ISN'T bullshit.

Depends on the group, I suppose.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

So what would you do if North Korea dropped a couple of nukes on America?

Take down their government with conventional weapons and as little loss of life as possible. Nuking them back might take care of the problem, until China decides they don't like that fallout dirtying up the countryside. After that, as we did in Europe and Japan, help them re-build. Then help bring their people into the 21st century. A prosperous North Korea, or a unified Korea, would be a far better thing for the world at large than a glow-in-the-dark North Korea.

The DPRK isn't a threat without the Kim family running things.

Agreed, though the people suffering the most under the Kim cult are the North Koreans themselves. It's difficult to imagine the horrors and suffering inflicted on those deemed undesirable by the Kim's. I would like to see the North Korean dictatorship toppled. As would, I assume, most Koreans north and south of the border.

[Edwardo Piet]

Which ISN'T bullshit.

Depends on the group, I suppose.

Nah.

I mean, for example, I don't relate to my fellow atheists because we have nothing particularly in common besides the fact we don't believe in gods.

[Chad32]

I imagine it doesn't apply as well for larger general groups like atheism, or really what country you were born in. But the smaller the group is, the more it tells people about you. Like people marching alongside white nationalists in Charlottesville.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I imagine it doesn't apply as well for larger general groups like atheism, or really what country you were born in. But the smaller the group is, the more it tells people about you. Like people marching alongside white nationalists in Charlottesville.

No argument here, but there's certainly a difference between being born into a particular nation, coming to disbelief on your own, and choosing to march under a swastika flag. They are all groupings. Some are imposed from without; others are positive choices one makes.

I had no choice being born Texan or American, and I reject the broad-brushes applied to those groups. I had no choice in losing my faith, either. But if I choose to march under any flag, that's my own decision, and I bear the responsibility for that choice.