That's a good question: Who was worse, Pinochet or Allende?
Like I said, the most reasonable way to answer such a question is to determine who objectively hurt the most people.
You seem to believe that the speculative future evils of an Allende regime--wholly unproven, and based on hypotheticals--is worse than the actual, real-world performance of Pinochet.
Under this mehtod of measurement, anyone could be hypothetically better or worse than anyone else...and we'd determine this based on opinion rather than on objective reality.
In short, your own underlying thesis here demolishes your own argument as quickly as anyone else's.
IMHO, people in civilized societies are never forced to choose between such extremes - because in a true democracy, people are free to choose.
The "true democracy" was the legal election of Allende, not the violent dictatorship of Pinochet.
Edited by bleeding heart, 08 April 2012 - 03:29 AM.
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