EDIT: In this case your utopia would be richer then all the world put together and stronger then all the world put together.
Ok, you're leader of a 1st world country and you are faced with a choice. The choice would result in either: turning your country into a Utopia (Permenantly) but would result in the total destruction of a 3rd world country (Killing millions) Or: Developing the 3rd world country into a 1st world country but your country stays the same, neither becoming stronger nor weaker.
Use your imagination to come up with the situation that resulted in this choice arising.
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
Depends which third world country? Some i would help some i wouldn't. For example i wouldn't help the Solomon Islands because they are as corrupt as hell.
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
But your country's utopia would be so advanced you wouldn't need economic growth and you'd be advanced enough to easily make new scientific discoveries.
ottenni: Depends which third world country? Some i would help some i wouldn't. For example i wouldn't help the Solomon Islands because they are as corrupt as hell.
As I've said: "Use your imagination to come up with the situation that resulted in this choice arising."
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
But your country's utopia would be so advanced you wouldn't need economic growth and you'd be advanced enough to easily make new scientific discoveries.
Umm, but my corporation is a multinational organization that would benefit more from a better global economy.
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
But your country's utopia would be so advanced you wouldn't need economic growth and you'd be advanced enough to easily make new scientific discoveries.
Umm, but my corporation is a multinational organization that would benefit more from a better global economy.
Yes, your corporation would benefit and not the country you're in charge of. That makes you a corrupt leader.
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
But your country's utopia would be so advanced you wouldn't need economic growth and you'd be advanced enough to easily make new scientific discoveries.
Umm, but my corporation is a multinational organization that would benefit more from a better global economy.
Yes, your corporation would benefit and not the country you're in charge of. That makes you a corrupt leader.
The funny thing is, more people would benefit from my decision. So it's both morally correct and profitable.
ottenni: Depends which third world country? Some i would help some i wouldn't. For example i wouldn't help the Solomon Islands because they are as corrupt as hell.
As I've said: "Use your imagination to come up with the situation that resulted in this choice arising."
So it may be any country you want.
In that case Kenya. I love Kenya. And Africa would surely benefit from all the added wealth thrown into the region.
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
But your country's utopia would be so advanced you wouldn't need economic growth and you'd be advanced enough to easily make new scientific discoveries.
Umm, but my corporation is a multinational organization that would benefit more from a better global economy.
Yes, your corporation would benefit and not the country you're in charge of. That makes you a corrupt leader.
The funny thing is, more people would benefit from my decision. So it's both morally correct and profitable.
This is all made up so.....I guess it's your made up Earth.
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
But your country's utopia would be so advanced you wouldn't need economic growth and you'd be advanced enough to easily make new scientific discoveries.
Umm, but my corporation is a multinational organization that would benefit more from a better global economy.
Yes, your corporation would benefit and not the country you're in charge of. That makes you a corrupt leader.
The funny thing is, more people would benefit from my decision. So it's both morally correct and profitable.
This is all made up so.....I guess it's your made up Earth.
Actually, that would be a wise venture in modern day Earth, and as a bonus, we would get good publicity for not curbstomping a random 3rd world country.
Valate: Utopias never pan out economically. No, really. I'd develop the other country so my country has a new market and becomes more competitive.
Just pretend it would for the sake of the topic.
But a more competitive market results in more discoveries and economic growth for the company paying me on the side to benefit them. Isn't politics fun?
But your country's utopia would be so advanced you wouldn't need economic growth and you'd be advanced enough to easily make new scientific discoveries.
Umm, but my corporation is a multinational organization that would benefit more from a better global economy.
Yes, your corporation would benefit and not the country you're in charge of. That makes you a corrupt leader.
The funny thing is, more people would benefit from my decision. So it's both morally correct and profitable.
This is all made up so.....I guess it's your made up Earth.
Actually, that would be a wise venture in modern day Earth, and as a bonus, we would get good publicity for not curbstomping a random 3rd world country.
I'd uplift the third world country,because i live in a sort of one myself. I understand that those people would really appreciate that and would become our best friends.
In short,Screw Utopia,I Want To Help The Helpless!
Plus,utopias larger than five/ten thousand people always come with strings attached. ALWAYS.
Save the poor guys of course! If I up their life-standard, the entire world will end up having the same one. Which means that inevitably, we'll all become richer together.
So, I can make another country better at no expense, or I can make my country better, but at the cost of millions of lives... that's not a hard decision at all.
Demented Teddy: EDIT: Utopia now means: A country richer then all the world put together and stronger then all the world put together.
That's the worse definition of Utopia that I've ever heard. It says nothing about the state of that country, all the wealth could, and probably would be, in the hands of a few people so everyone else could be poor.
I think this merely goes further towards showing that there's no such thing as Utopia.
Also, in what way would destroying a poor, impoverished nation of absolutely no value ever come close to making your country the most rich and powerful? I mean, maybe if there was some sorta natural resource native to that country, but when it that ever going to realistically happen?
Valate: I would still save the third world country, because the Sweden has antimatter, and reparations could be costly. (AKA: Boom! /goodbye utopia!)
Do you have any idea how long it would take to produce enough antimatter to destroy even a city block? A loooooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooong time. There isn't even enough antimatter in the world today to do so now. It's be easier take over a nation with an army of spoon wielding conscripts.
Valate: I would still save the third world country, because the Sweden has antimatter, and reparations could be costly. (AKA: Boom! /goodbye utopia!)
Do you have any idea how long it would take to produce enough antimatter to destroy even a city block? A loooooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooong time. There isn't even enough antimatter in the world today to do so now. It's be easier take over a nation with an army of spoon wielding conscripts.
EDIT: In this case your utopia would be richer then all the world put together and stronger then all the world put together.
Ok, you're leader of a 1st world country and you are faced with a choice.
The choice would result in either:
turning your country into a Utopia (Permenantly) but would result in the total destruction of a 3rd world country (Killing millions)
Or:
Developing the 3rd world country into a 1st world country but your country stays the same, neither becoming stronger nor weaker.
Use your imagination to come up with the situation that resulted in this choice arising.
What would you do?
I'd turn my country into a utopia.