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What opposing argument have you tried to give an honest reasoning towards, but still ended up disagreeing with it? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 5 days ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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No examples from me, just curious.

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[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The necessity for an army.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I see this opinion a lot. Sincere question, how are countries without armies supposed to defend themselves from imperialism?

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can rephrase it in lighter terms as "how much is enought military funding?"

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

enought military funding

as much as can keep you more powerful than the rest of the competition combined.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well that escalated quickly.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

At least that's what I aim for in Civ VI.
No idea about you

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

My aim for CIV is minimal military to survive a first push but enough money to just buy military units to then push back, take all their cities and be labelled warmonger. Suddenly everyone wants a piece of this ass so i spend the rest of the game fighting... I see I have a problem in this pipeline

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 points 4 days ago

I don't play Civ VI and I don't rule a country so I can't speak from experience.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 3 points 5 days ago

Give America all your oil.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pretty simple actually.
Just make sure you don't have any resource worth anything in the international market.

Let stuff like petroleum, Lithium, Uranium and other such thingies be sold to the first bidder.
Have your soil be nuclear contaminated, down to the bedrock, so nobody wants your land.

Also, import all nuclear waste from other countries

Have a population that looks as ugly as possible, so noone will want to rape your people.

Should be easier considering point 2
Something like leprosy in the genitals would help too.

Be absolutely full of population, such that the place is a cesspool.

Hey, I said it'd be simple, not that it would be easy or even humanly possible.