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I notice you didn't respond to the first and most important point. If you're willing to say that the US is "certainly" superior to Venezuela or Saudi Arabia, then how can you not also say that Americans are superior to Venezuelans or Saudi Arabs?
I didn't notice you making that point sorry. I believe that all people are fundamentally equal in worth. However a nation is not merely people, it is shared culture, accomplishment, economy, land, and a bunch of other stuff. Most of it is what people choose throughout their daily lives. People choose to uphold their cultural, economic, moral, etc values over other possibilities in their every day decisions. It is the result of those choices which has a great influence on how successful a nation is going to be. If something works well, it is certainly superior to something that does not work well. Like a car, I would rather have a nice toyota tundra that can go 150k miles without problems over some cheap 80s american car that can barely go 40k miles. The tundra is superior because it is better fit to its purpose. The same is true with a country.
I see humans in a totally different manner because 1 they can choose their own purpose and often their own fitness to it (or at least have influence, we cannot all be michael jordon) and 2 the wellbeing of people (which is the purpose of society) has a moral value attached to it that does not deviate between individuals.
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