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<blockquote data-quote="bucky" data-source="post: 1331588" data-attributes="member: 10588">Totally valid point. I will say that I believe that all of God's children are capable of building a relatively safe, stable society. I think in the case of places like the more backwards countries of Central America or most African countries, a big part of the problem is having &quot;free democratic elections&quot; and other explicitly Anglo-Saxon and Western European ideas forced upon them. I've come to believe that military dictatorship is the best system of government in my wife's country. I have no idea what the ideal system would be in African countries because I've never lived in Africa, but I feel reasonably sure it wouldn't be the same as England or Sweden or the USA. True, with whatever their ideal system would be in Central America or Africa, you wouldn't have the levels of prosperity you have in Europe, North America, or first-world Asian countries like Japan, because people in those countries aren't Europeans, Americans, or Japanese, but you'd almost certainly have something better than what they have now.Maybe in the case of African populations in the Americas, the ideal would be some type of autonomy in a system led by the best and brightest with more of an authoritarian approach than you'd see in white areas, I don't know. I know you'll probably bring up Haiti and I'll admit I don't have a great answer to that, but it's difficult for me to believe that God wants black people in places like the USA, Brazil, and Haiti to live in the conditions they do now, so there must be an answer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bucky, post: 1331588, member: 10588"] Totally valid point. I will say that I believe that all of God's children are capable of building a relatively safe, stable society. I think in the case of places like the more backwards countries of Central America or most African countries, a big part of the problem is having "free democratic elections" and other explicitly Anglo-Saxon and Western European ideas forced upon them. I've come to believe that military dictatorship is the best system of government in my wife's country. I have no idea what the ideal system would be in African countries because I've never lived in Africa, but I feel reasonably sure it wouldn't be the same as England or Sweden or the USA. True, with whatever their ideal system would be in Central America or Africa, you wouldn't have the levels of prosperity you have in Europe, North America, or first-world Asian countries like Japan, because people in those countries aren't Europeans, Americans, or Japanese, but you'd almost certainly have something better than what they have now. Maybe in the case of African populations in the Americas, the ideal would be some type of autonomy in a system led by the best and brightest with more of an authoritarian approach than you'd see in white areas, I don't know. I know you'll probably bring up Haiti and I'll admit I don't have a great answer to that, but it's difficult for me to believe that God wants black people in places like the USA, Brazil, and Haiti to live in the conditions they do now, so there must be an answer. [/QUOTE]

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