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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

The Culture doesn't believe in non-interference. But it's not “CIA shit” if they're actually doing it to influence a society to become better rather than just pretending that that's the goal in order to take their oil.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    But that is just their idea of better.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    And yours. And mine. And everyone else's who isn't a fascist who wants to oppress other people.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I guess i cant not see the parallels of a lot of US intervention in 3rd world countries. Because those where pitched in much the same way.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Yeah because some of these pitches would have been actually morally OK reasons for intervention if they would have been the true reason.

    If Saddam Hussein would have been a crazed madman with weapons of mass destruction that he was ready to use on a whim, intervention would have been the right thing to do. That's why they used that lie, to make it look better.

    But I get it: there are gray zones and other Culture novels dive into them. There's a peace faction as a response to the Idrian war, and so on.

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