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Nah Squid, as I said I’m not looking for this discussion. I’m definitely not going into an who can out evil who debate as there is so much out there. I’m also not looking to defend any of these countries either. As I said, bad and worse.

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You aren’t looking to defend countries yet you call one “bad” and the other “worse”.

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Absolutely, and I’m plenty entitled to my opinion.

In my original post I purposefully did not specify my opinion on which is worse as I fully understand that choosing one as more evil over the other is subjective and depends on your perspective and priorities.

Squid asked a question, fully expecting my answer to be as it was, in order to perform a gotcha. And I’m not interested in having a slapfight on which country is more evil… as the list of horribleness for each of the countries is so sickeningly long.

But in the end both countries are hellholes, tthat I would not wish my worst enemy to live in.

Edit: I’m just sad that this leads to downvotes.

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Your original post literally contains “one is bad and the other is way worse”. You started out from a non-neutral position. Then people called you out, and you got defensive saying that you aren’t going to go into “who’s worse”. Which again, you already did. There is no slapfight without your subjective opinion being unbalanced in the first place.

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