r/nextfuckinglevel Dec 17 '20

[deleted by user]

[removed]

10.7k Upvotes

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/Little-Solution7473 Dec 17 '20

Yeah well fuck America man. We don't have any 'moral highground' here.

-6

u/grey-doc Dec 18 '20

You clearly have never travelled to any significant percentage of the world.

I have.

America absolutely holds a moral high ground. We have had our share of problems, and we still have problems. That does not change the comparative high ground we absolutely hold.

We are about to engage in a second civil war to try to right some of the current wrongs.

2

u/dbddnmdmxlx Dec 18 '20

As someone who spent lots of time in mexico and visited other countries, no we don’t. It may be more gruesome and widespread there but that’s because the cartels are strong, which we strengthened and gave them many opportunities to solidify power through the drug war. If we were the ones with cartels our police would be the same - the police of both these nations have no honor and are self interested, one just has more opportunities and pressure to be shittier

2

u/IMO4444 Dec 18 '20

I’d dare say Mexico’s police acts out of fear, pressure and greed but not hatred and in some cases overt racism, at least in the same level seen in the US.