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- quakerorts, on 05/21/2008, -30/+302I'm surprised we beat anybody!
- bobzibub, on 05/21/2008, -8/+234Team Canada: #11!!!
Not bad. Still have work to do... - wonderchemist, on 05/21/2008, -20/+211Hmmm... so countries where you can legally smoke pot are peaceful ones...
- Khaless, on 05/21/2008, -3/+187The actual rankings for 2008 are here if anyone wants to explore them.
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/rankin ... - obliviousfool, on 05/21/2008, -14/+147Iraq is at the bottom. I wonder how it got there?
- pu-z, on 05/21/2008, -4/+128Oh, wow. You got beaten by China on a peace index. That stings.
Sincerely, #3 - toddcat, on 05/21/2008, -6/+116Yeahhhh!!!! We're more peaceful than the Sudan!!!
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 05/21/2008, -2/+102"I hate these filthy neutrals, With enemies you know where they stand but with neutrals?"
-Zapp Brannigan - Crimsonsoul343, on 05/21/2008, -3/+101Now i know what countries to attack first on my quest for world domination.
- JohnGalt72, on 05/21/2008, -5/+101Do we need to wipe out those nations higher on the list than us in order to get to #1?
*Neocon logic* - cheezintern, on 05/21/2008, -1/+92That's crazy. Smoking pot=peaceful populous. According to my government literature/propaganda, these pot smoking nations are suppose to be crime ridden, bordering total anarchy, with blood raining from the sky and people eating babies to survive.
- Brad324, on 05/21/2008, -4/+93Remember, keep pretending hockey is just a sport - they'll never suspect us.
- bcerz811, on 05/21/2008, -2/+83we seriously got beat by rwanda? wow...that sucks
- pintomp3, on 05/21/2008, -9/+86we beat everybody. that's why we are so low on the list.
- Pitfan, on 05/21/2008, -1/+76Top 100!
- MysticSavage, on 05/21/2008, -1/+69See #97.
- Oxygen, on 05/21/2008, -0/+60Kazakhstan is #72
- BXRWXR, on 05/21/2008, -2/+59Oh yeah? You wanna make something of it?!
- uncommonwords, on 05/21/2008, -1/+56Civilization IV Strategy: Choose United States, then war with every nation in game.
Such Fun. - SevenTwo, on 05/21/2008, -6/+60America, ***** YEAH!
- atbrask, on 05/21/2008, -2/+55I find it funny that the top three are old viking countries..
- astronomical, on 05/21/2008, -15/+59A bit misleading, here's why.
The Economist, in publishing the index, admitted that, "the index will run into some flak." Specifically, according to The Economist, the weighting of military expenditure "may seem to give heart to freeloaders: countries that enjoy peace precisely because others (often the USA) care for their defense." The USA spends more than all other countries combined on the military. The true utility of the index may lie not in its specific rankings of countries now, but in how those rankings change over time, thus tracking when and how countries become more or less peaceful.
The Peace Index has been criticised for not including indicators specifically relating to violence against women and children. Riane Eisler, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, argued that, "to put it mildly, this blind spot makes the index very inaccurate." She mentions a number of specific cases, including Egypt, where she claims 90% of women are subject to genital mutilation, China, where, she says, "female infanticide is still a problem," and Chile, where 26% of women "suffered at least one episode of violence by a partner, according to a 2000 UNICEF study. - Nenb, on 05/21/2008, -2/+40http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_ ...
1. Iceland: Technically Illegal. Consumption is illegal even in small amounts. Possession, sale, transportation and cultivation could result in jail time.
2. Denmark: Illegal.
3. Norway: Illegal. Up to 15 grams is considered an amount for personal use, and is punished with a fine of 250-450 euros in the case of first-time offenders; possessing more is considered dealing and punished more harshly.
4. New Zeeland: Illegal. Cannabis is scheduled as a Class B substance. Cultivation, possession or sale of cannabis is illegal.
5. Japan: Illegal. Not tolerated. Even a positive drug test can get you jail time.
6. Ireland: Illegal. Tolerated in small amounts for personal use. Cannabis cultivation or holding large amounts for resale is taken very seriously by the Gardaí.
7. Portugal: Illegal.
8. Finland: Illegal.
9. Luxembourg: Illegal.
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I could go on. But I hope you CHECK YOUR FACTS next time.
I am not saying anything wether light drugs should be legal or not, just that you are off your mark by a mile. - 10001110101, on 05/21/2008, -1/+39Shhh! Ixnay on the ecretsay lanpay!
- orangefly, on 05/21/2008, -0/+37you ever ate a baby.................on weed....
- dondara, on 05/21/2008, -1/+36That would be funnier if some moron in D.C. wasn't thinking that.
- reuscel, on 05/21/2008, -3/+36In your face, Trinidad and Tobago! USA!! USA!! USA!!
- CannedMango, on 05/21/2008, -0/+32I'm Canadian and ***** like this pisses me off.
It just comes off as arrogant to me. - uriman, on 05/21/2008, -2/+34they are all having sexy time!
- Dan137exe, on 05/21/2008, -8/+40Is it too much to ask to actually show me the list?
- Sherman901, on 05/21/2008, -0/+28woohoo!, we beat iran! who's got the cake?
- inactive, on 05/21/2008, -0/+28Too many pirates have invaded Sweden, they dropped to number 13.
- Halbermunken, on 05/21/2008, -13/+39"Funny" thing the neocons want to occupy Iran as well...
- mrweasel, on 05/21/2008, -0/+26Well we're still tired from kill each other for a couple of hundred years.
- wiggles, on 05/21/2008, -1/+26Yes, but are they peaceful because they allow it, or do they allow it because they're peaceful? My vote is for the latter.
- kemp34, on 05/21/2008, -5/+28Nice job, we made it WORSE than when Saddam was in charge.
- Hetman, on 05/21/2008, -2/+23Whats the chances of this happening? It is not like we have our highest ranking politicians going on T.V. and singing Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. Oh wait nevermind I guess we do.
- blackjack75, on 05/21/2008, -2/+21I think this is about modern japan, not 1942's japan.
- kemp34, on 05/21/2008, -4/+22Makes ultra sense. Tyranny has been known to lead to violence. Marijuana being illegal is one evidence of tyranny.
- kevinwiz, on 05/21/2008, -0/+18YA!!! Aim high, America. Aim high.
- mattus, on 05/21/2008, -18/+35Seems a bit misleading to me. I'm not American, but it strikes me that castigating the USA for its vast military expenditure is a little ignorant in view of the good which the US military does in keeping the peace across the world. Criticising the USA for the number of soldiers killed overseas, one of the criteria which was used, seems pretty harsh when lots of those soldiers undoubtedly died so that someone else could live.
Of course the best way to remain peaceful is never to engage in any conflicts, but conflict is a fact of life and sometimes it's involvement rather than passively standing by which carries the moral high ground. It is the prerogative - some would say obligation - of influential nations such as the USA to intervene in such conflicts in a peacekeeping capacity, in order to secure long-term freedoms. Articles such as this are unhelpful. - ricksite, on 05/21/2008, -0/+17"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Churchill
- reuscel, on 05/21/2008, -2/+18And China, Belarus, Syria, and Serbia. It's ***** shameful.
- Lugano, on 05/21/2008, -0/+16Not sure why you are getting buried...
- 955701, on 05/21/2008, -2/+17That brings up a question. What would happen if most of the 150 nations clean up their act and all become very peaceful. Do they start fighting for #1? And if they do, doesn't that hurt them because they're, you know fighting?
- MeHow, on 05/21/2008, -3/+18Lets legalize pot, that for sure would bump us up a few ranks :D
- flashingcurser, on 05/21/2008, -0/+15I thought people from over the pond had to be in lockstep about their hatred of the US. You'd better watch yourself! You're treading into dangerous territory. ;^)
- cerejota, on 05/21/2008, -0/+15RTFA!
- KillerLettuce, on 05/21/2008, -4/+19I seriously doubt marijuana is the sole reason a country is peaceful. Now go ahead, bury me for speaking the truth.
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