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Originally Posted by Azure
China is outrageous in their manners, international affairs, human rights, etc, etc.
Again, what does that have to do with the US? Most of us don't even live there.
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Obviously people make comparisons to other countries because that's one of the easiest ways to put international actions into perspective. There's a whole realm of Political Science called Comparative Politics that is solely devoted to making comparisons between nation-states in order to understand specific actions within context.
It's not against the rules to compare the actions of one state to those of another to gain perspective. If you look at any state without considering any others, you're doing so in an artificial vaccuum that allows for distorted value/moral judgements.