> It should have been obvious in context that I was referring to something along the lines of "western democracies" since I listed countries before ever using the word "peer".
I said "compared to many of our peer nations". You are acting as if I said "compared to all our peer nations". Pointing out countries we are ahead does nothing to disprove that there are 8 countries in which we are "usually behind".
But either way, I give up. This isn't worth spending any more time on. Congrats, you win!
> I said "compared to many of our peer nations". You are acting as if I said "compared to all our peer nations"
This is where the misunderstanding arises. You are actually incorrect. I’m not acting as if you said compared to all of our peer nations. I clearly and repeatedly accepted that we are behind some of our peer nations.
You on the other hand, are using the fact that we are not literally at the top of the list, to argue that we are behind our peers in a general sense.
If you weren’t you’d simply say “we aren’t at the top of the list - there are 8 countries ahead of us”, instead of the false, and more generic sounding “compared to many of our peers”.
I already dealt with that in this response:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28560646
> It honestly seems like you are arguing just for the sake of argument at this point.
That doesn’t seem honest to me.