Whenever there’s an article proclaiming education or healthcare or airports or fill-in-the-blank are better in another country, this &quot;oh, well, they are a small country and you can’t compare them&quot; arguments gets dusted off again.<p>If we have 1 major airport per 10 million people (made up nuumber) and so does another country, how does that argument make sense? With a big country, economies of scale should lead to even better airports but it doesn’t.<p>IHMO, this is just an excuse to refuse to learn from the example of other countries, regardless of size. A country so large should be even better at doing what small countries do well. Especially showing basic human decency and humanity toward other members of their species.