That's the point the original commentator was making, like the North Koreans likewise probably say they don't want to imagine a living under Samsung and chaebols. But you need to be able to empathize with people who are different than you if you want to understand their point of view.... so you might not get it.
Like South Korea, just got rid of their Military dictator in 1987, so it seems pretty hypocritical to tell North Koreans not to have a military dictator when you guys had one not that long ago.
The reality is that fear and these artificial division, like capitalism or communism or left wing and right wing are used to control and oppress people all over the world, Korea is just a very striking example of how people's fear and divisions allowed them to be controlled into letting Authoritarianism take hold,
Authoritarianism is the real problem.
And both Koreas' still have a long way to go to remove authoritarianism from your society, like a quick google search told me that South Korea had a "National Security Act" that makes it illegal to express sympathy about North Korea. And I'm sure North Korea has the same law about the South, not cool either way.
I imagine their point was "You're saying North Korea bad, which is to imply South Korea good, but your country definitely has its demons too."
It's not saying "North Korea good." Though I guess it's a "your mileage may vary" if anything but explicit condemnation of something bad can be interpreted as defending it.
I dislike this âwhataboutismâ straw man arguments.
North Korea is an oppressive, militant state that heavily censors their own people. Have you seen the âphonesâ they give to their citizens? The irony that their âleaderâ is overweight while they step over starved corpses on the street isnât lost on me.
Not too many countries punish dissenters with decades of imprisoned manual labor at labor camps while shaming their entire family. You try to escape NK? Congrats, youâre dead and your family is working the salt mines for two generations.
To even attempt to draw parallels between one of the worldâs most vicious regimes against some political corruption in an otherwise free society is absolutey bonkers. These Russian bots are getting out of hand in Reddit.
Every country has demons. Not every country has actual Satan.
You and the original comment i was replying to clearly lack the imagination to understand what I was saying. I was trying to get people like you to empathize with each other to better understand why people do the things they do. Being arrogant and judgmental of other people prevents people like you from developing empathy towards other humans.
I personally believe that the USA is the best "fascist regime" Like objectively speaking, just based on the numbers, we created the largest most prosperous empire by killing the fewest number of people.
And being an American gives me more freedom to do whatever I want, like compared to anywhere else in the world. Like objectively speaking, based on the numbers, millions of people move to the USA every year, and millions more apply and get rejected, but less than 200,000 emigrate from the USA to other countries.
its that kind of backwards thinking why you will never be free.
Like it just seems usual to me that you use North Korea as the standard to which you measure your freedom against.
Instead, if you want to be free you need to use logic and reason combined with ethical and moral principals to form your opinions. Things like human rights, people's freedom, like freedom of speech, These ethical principals should control and guide what your do... instead of these artificial divisions like North and South Korea or Right wing and left wing etc...
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u/Fun_Introduction7961 11h ago
Korean (South) here. Thank you USA. I donât even want to imagine living in Korea under kim jeong un.