Right. Unless something is perfect, then it is worthless. And it’s “moot”.
OP made a claim that being a bigger country means less corruption and less misinformation without giving any evidence. By his or her logic the biggest countries in the world would be corruption free. They are not so the OP's claim is invalidated.
As opposed to your evidence for your claim, because you feel yours is intuitively correct?
How about providing evidence (!) for your own thing first? :)
Meanwhile, there are tonnes of examples of smaller nations that have been corrupted. Look at Africa for several examples, Sri Lanka in the news about a year ago, Myanmar (ongoing), etc. :(
No it is not intuitively correct but it is backed-up by data. The quote I was responding to was:
> Small countries have less resources to combat misinformation, bribery, and corruption of other forms.
The quote in question implies that bigger countries have more power to fight disinformation and corruption. Is that true or false?
> How about providing evidence (!) for your own thing first? :)
If we look at the data, the answer is false. In the top 10 of the least corrupted countries, where do big countries stand?
The response is that they are not in the top 10. US, China, India, Brazil, Nigeria, none are not in the top 10.
That's according to https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022/ which is a non-profit organization that fights and denounces corruption around the world.
So there you go I proved my point even though I did not have too.
Why? because if you tell me that the sky is green and I tell you that I don't agree with your opinion, I don't have to prove you wrong, you are the one claiming something and therefore you have to prove you point or to put it another way, what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
> Meanwhile, there are tonnes of examples of smaller nations that have been corrupted. Look at Africa for several examples, Sri Lanka in the news about a year ago, Myanmar (ongoing), etc. :(
This is a straw-man argument on top of cherry picked data, I can respond with the same sentence and be just as correct as you:
Meanwhile, there are tonnes of examples of bigger nations that have been corrupted. Look at China for several examples, India and so on..
The bottom line is that OP made an assertion, without any evidence which has been proven wrong.
