My wife (not pictured) is bringing home fresh coffee beans from Uganda. They grow the beans and roast them there next to a waterfall. My old Sunday school teachers are shown sitting at the table. My wife says the people there are "wonderfully open, kind and accepting."

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Much like Zimbabwe, the people are so nice that you only need a handful of psychos and they take over the whole country

[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

On the one hand the scenario you put forward is logically sound, however the facts on the ground are different than what you are proposing. If a handful of psychos took over while everyone else was kind and peaceful then this situation would not lead to rampant criminality and violence across the country. That is what is happening. If the people in the picture were two young white girls traveling alone they would be raped and murdered having never come across any of these supposed "handful of psychos in power".

All countries have the problem you described where the nice people get taken over by the psychos. In white countries where the people are actually kind and nice the country remains peaceful and prosperous. The cost to quality of life caused by the psychos increasing taxes to fund wars, and the tyrannical policies they put in place to maintain power don't lead to the collapse of these countries into the squaller and violence of the third world.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sharp observation.