Re your concerns about US global domination

Come on now, enough with the hyperbole. The US has been a superpower for 60 years, the beginning of which was marked with rebuilding Europe and Japan insead of enjoying the spoils of war, then turned to creating international organizations like NATO and the UN as a response to Soviet expansion, and then worked to clean up hotspots like Yugoslavia, Kuwait, and Bosnia.

I can't say I approve every US action in that span of time (particularly in South America and Southeast Asia), but the basis of comparison is the Europeans. This is a group of people who, when they had the power to, raped and pillaged the rest of the planet for 500 years, before just about destroying themselves in two wars. Now suddenly they're the moral compass for the rest of the planet?

>>29, >>30's reply is pretty much what I'd say. Except I'd remove the word "stupid". Pretty much all people's birth rate goes up when their food supply increases. So either most people are stupid or... well nm, most people are stupid. And by stupid I mean monstrously short-sighted.

Colonialism is not even a tangential cause of the civil wars and genocide in Africa. Colonialism was ending or over throughout the entire continent before the true horrors of Africa's 20th century began. I could see some sort of argument that a *lack* of colonialism caused those horrors, but I think that's simply conflating correlation with causation.

More likely I think that an uncontrolled population boom caused starvation which caused civil war which caused the search for a non-rational excuse to kill a lot of civilians to reduce economic demand for food. What's the cause of the population boom? Well, how about 7 out of 10 children surviving to the age of 18, instead of 3 out of 10.

As to why this didn't happen in Europe and Asia with the eradication of childhood disease, it's because the consumate rise in survival wasn't as great. Europe went from 7/10 to 9/10, and Asia went from 7/10 to 8/10.

tl;dr? You are not omnipotent. You do not know the effects of your causes.