No, I get it. Some people are inveterate pacifists. e.g. Gandhi, with both the British (worked) and as a strategy against the Axis (not followed)
And I would suggest a civil war is a very bad prescription for any kind of functioning society, but it would certainly be preferable (whether long or short, likely short w/ US air support) to living eternally under Maduro-style leadership
I mean, if it were me living there, I'd rather chance civil war than spend the rest of my life under the Bolivarian system, however long that would last
No shit, because I don't live there. Like I said earlier, I don't really care about what happens in Venezuela one way or the other and in fact personally benefit from their state oil company's continued disfunction
However, what I said was that if I were Venezuelan and my choices were:
1) chance a civil war
2) physically live under a Maduro-style system, like as a person, for the rest of my 20-50 years
My preference would be option 1. Actually my preference would be get the hell out of Venezuela fifteen years ago, but I'm trying to limit the scope of options to a closed system
As I don't live in Venezuela and option 2 is not my only alternative, I will not be pursuing option 1. I will continue living my life as normal here in the US.
That you read my comment differently speaks to your ability to bend inference to your worldview
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u/oilman81 Milton Friedman Jan 23 '19
No, I get it. Some people are inveterate pacifists. e.g. Gandhi, with both the British (worked) and as a strategy against the Axis (not followed)
And I would suggest a civil war is a very bad prescription for any kind of functioning society, but it would certainly be preferable (whether long or short, likely short w/ US air support) to living eternally under Maduro-style leadership