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The point is:
Let's say that the US infact saves the planet from an asteroid impact. Everybody cheers, until the US knocks on someones doors for I dont know, oil. They could say: " We, the US, have saved you from a deep impact, and if it wasn't for us, you would'nt need oil because you would all be dead. Since we saved you, you owe us so give it up."
And they would use this excuse for the following decades to obtain what they want and play with the public opinion. And what would annoy the hell out of me is that they would have done it to save them selfs first and foremost and not the whole planet but would use it as an excuse to obtain freebies....-Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.Comment
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Can't find any reason why they would do such a stupid thing.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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To obtain ressources, funding and help for free......
They've been doing that for years, why wouldn't they do it then?-Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.Comment
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The US have no right to ask for anything as a gift for saving the world because as you pointed out they are saving themselves also.
And if they go ahead and ask for gifts/tributes that the world will simply hate tham more than they do now.Quendelie axan!Comment
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Haven't read all answers, but I think the US would have no success in "puppetrizing the world" because
- some people wouldn't believe there was a real danger at all
- some people would say the US created the meteorit (or at last changed its course so that it could hit the Earth) to play savior, and to win political capital from it
- some would say they didn't care about the world when acting, only about the US
- some would also say it was all due to the evil US/EU/Russian/Chinese/Jewish/black/white/communist/capitalist/whatever conspiracy, but that doesn't have anything to with the original question. We also would have lots of Poly threads about it.
So in other words nothing would be substantially different from the situation today.BlahComment
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Examples ?Originally posted by Skywise
To obtain ressources, funding and help for free......
They've been doing that for years, why wouldn't they do it then?With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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Yeah, everyone wiould cheer but the US would get no political capital from it, since it had to do it to save itself, so it was not some charitable task, but sdelf defense. If someone attacks you and you kill them, others may laud you for doing it, but youi can;t then go up to them and demand compensation for having removed the threat to them.
In a more realisitc note, if the threat was trully worldwide, you would probably have Russia and the US and EU working together with the US, EU, and Japan fitting the bill.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Bull****.Originally posted by Sir Og
The US have no right to ask for anything as a gift for saving the world because as you pointed out they are saving themselves also.Comment
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Wow, such an indepth arguement.....Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Bull****.
If you don't like reality, change it! me
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"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
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"I never seen such a threadjacking......"
More bull****.
Anyway, I suggest the US redirect chunks of the metior to destroy the cities of countries in which there is stuff we want. These cities would have been destroyed anyway, so no big deal. Then, all the ingrates will be dead, as they would have been anyway, and we, the US, can get what we need.Long time member @ Apolyton
Civilization player since the dawn of timeComment
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We'll just capture the meteorite-to-be and ask each country in turn if they'd like a little supplemental iron in their diets, or would they like to make a donation to us for all the costs of keeping the meteorite-to-be from falling on their heads.
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"Unless they pay us.....one m i l l i o n dollars"
We need a smiley with a pinky finger to the mouth.Long time member @ Apolyton
Civilization player since the dawn of timeComment
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We were reimbursed for all of our Gulf War I expenses. I think we could get contributions for a deep impact. It's precedent.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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And that's about all the thanks you could get, or people might be willing to give.Originally posted by DanS
We were reimbursed for all of our Gulf War I expenses. I think we could get contributions for a deep impact. It's precedent.
That does not equal political capital.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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