There are no good countries, there may be 'better' ones, but a country existing is inherently exclusionary and creates hierarchy.
That assumes absolute good and bad. Good can also have a relative meaning, when used for comparison.
Fair.
The initiator wanted to introduce a new kind of look at countries, to not only look and value and rank them by gdp or happiness index but by their contributions to outside their own country. They call this good, as in doing good things rather than selfish things.
'Better' is a ranking of 'goodness' as well.
That side, do you see no good in hierarchy at all?
That side, do you see no good in hierarchy at all?
Correct, I'm an anarchist. Hierarchy is one of the most harmful things that currently exists. I wish to live in a world without it. I genuinely cannot think of a single instance of where my life has been, or could be, improved by hierarchy, only worsened.
Would be interesting to see what multinational experts (for lack of a better term) think about the list. Hungary at #20 was a surprise to me, even moreso due it being #1 in science & technology(!)
This seems insanely biased? Placing e.g. Israel who's acrively committing war crimes and colonising Palestine above a country that's just vibing like Timor-Leste?
This reads like a ranking of western-ness, not 'good'-ness.
Timor-Leste ranks significantly above Isreal in "international peace and security" where Israel ranks 149 out of 174 mostly above places which are in active wars (and also the USA two places below it), and 139 out of 174 on "world order".
But the ranking also looks at contributions to science, culture and health where Israel does well. That's not saying they are morally good because if those contributions, but the contributions also do not stop existing because Israel is doing terrible things.
This is very flawed. Israel, USA, and UAE deserve to be at the bottom of the list because they facilitate genocide, and USA is responsible for hundreds of millions of murders globally.
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