Kim Jong Il Thinks He's a God-King: Why Ignore It?

[Brad De Long]

>
>Since there is no such thing as counterfactual to history, we he no way of
>telling (at least within the realm of empirical science) what an
>alternative course of events would have been under a difference set of
>circumstances.  Hence we cannot really tell without wandering into the
>realm of metaphysics or ideology whether countries like NK, Russia, or
>Germany would have been better or worse without Kim Il Sung, Stalin, or
>Hitler...
>
>wojtek
>

Then why do politics at all if you can't judge whether you are making 
a better world? Why don't you leave politics to those of us who can 
make empirical judgments as to the likely consequences of actions?

Brad DeLong