Rationality Quotes May 2012

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I don't care all that much about political democracy; what I meant is that Japan, India or, looking at the relative national conditions, even Turkey did NOT require some particular ruthlessness to modernize.

edit: derp

even Turkey did NOT require some particular ruthlessness to modernize.

Could you explain the meaning of this sentence please. I'm not sure I have grasped it correctly. To me it sounds like that you are saying that there was no ruthlessness involved in Atatürk's modernizing reforms. I assume that's not the case, right?

4Eugine_Nier14y

Taboo 'ruthlessness'. For example Japan was certainly ruthless while modernizing by any reasonable definition.

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