entrangermercenary1 wrote:
dogsmilk wrote:
entrangermercenary1 wrote:
This is what really fucks me off with people in the west sitting on the pc complaining how hard done by they are.
Your free to post your thoughts online
Free to go to the local supermarket and stock up on some grub
Free to fuck off on a plane or catch a boat or train to most locations in the world.
Lets see what shit hole I end up in next. Ill get you a ticket for a visit, then come and complain to the locals about your gripes
I'm sure the people I was giving out food parcels to over Christmas would love the opportunity of a ride on a boat or plane.
It's certainly true that in comparative terms in the West there is an overall far higher standard of living than many parts of the world. However, relative inequality engenders an acute perception oif those that exist within one's immediate environment. And somebody living in a grimy Salvation Army hostel in the North West - the kind of people I spend a lot of time around - don't give a fuck about your jaunts abroad.
LOL ...straight from the horses mouth ie you.... They have not got the luxery of a safety net or hostels
Ask them the background see how many ex mil are there. Dont talk shit to me about being homeless I know the apple about all that.
Its always the same shit from people its "relative". Well actually its not as in most of Africa they have a very good chance of being killed, the fucking creepy crawlies are not to friendly either.
Yeah...people in hostels or sleeping on the streets in northern England in winter have a luxury safety net...nobody else has ever lived but you...people in another continent have it tough so nobody else is allowed to have it bad...*
yawn*
Actually, relative has a lot to do with it and is really just common sense. People quite obviously see what else is directly around them, while what they see on telly or whatever is somewhat distanced. If people see other people having access to things they cannot acquire whilst simultaneously being told they should want to acquire them, then this quite obviously has an impact. This is beyond people who struggle with quite fundamental necessities. William Godwin pointed this out back in 1793, so it's not a new observation.
But I'm forgetting that nobody truly understands life as you do...having seen and done all and all that.
What's that about "ex mil"?? Eh? Actually very few that I've met, many of which are quite young, but I don't see the relevance.[/quote]
Just to expand on that a little because I feel like I'm talking to somebody with a flimsy grasp of the real world, say if you encounter somebody who has lost their job and their house is going to be repossessed or whatever, it's no good saying
ooooh but children starve in Africa and they have big fierce insects because that is irrelevant to them. Indeed, however bad you have things, you can pretty much always find somebody who seemingly has it worse than you. Somebody in an African country eking out a living constantly on the edge of starvation might have it better than somebody having their genitals electrified in an Egyptian torture chamber. That doesn't make their life a gala of wine and roses. Though some kind of perspective is a good thing - nobody likes somebody complaining their life is hell because they can't afford a new BMW - at the time if you go round saying
ooooh but somebody else has it worse you enter an infinite regress of pain where it becomes a kind of competition to say who has it worse.
It's also really fucking stupid to regard people who have really shit lives as some kind of benchmark. I'd say it's far more productive to concentrate on improving things and fighting for something better than go round saying
ooooh well at least my knackers aren't being removed with a rusty hacksaw when your benefits are cut, your wages reduced or your services axed. Indeed, you seem to have the attitude that people should be pitifully grateful for whatever bullshit is foisted on them just because somewhere else somebody might be getting blown up. That's retarded.
