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Conditions may apply. If you're homeless or living in a country with ongoing war, disease or hunger the likelihood that you have to worry about any of these thi
by SimplyUnknown 5y ago
Conditions may apply. If you're homeless or living in a country with ongoing war, disease or hunger the likelihood that you have to worry about any of these things goes up dramatically.
- gspr 5y agoOf course. But the fact that the norm is that one doesn't have to worry about these things still is a huge improvement.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoIndeed, and since you already called it the norm, we need to ensure that everybody gets to live that way.
- necovek 5y agoA norm does not make it a minimum baseline: a norm is something that's prevalent or average. Not disagreeing with your desire to make that the baseline, just with the terminology :)
- joshuacc 5y agoThe word norm can mean either “prevalent” or “the desired state of things.” So I’m assuming the previous comment was engaging in a bit of wordplay. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/norm https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/norm
- iqanq 5y agoWe need to ensure how? Injecting money senselessly forever like we do in Africa, bringing war to those countries, infiltrating their governments to take them over...? These comments always perplex me.
- gspr 5y agoOh I agree with that.
- Mordisquitos 5y agoIndeed, but being homeless(*) or living in a country with ongoing war, disease or hunger is much less likely today than at any point in history. Not only that, but if you were to be suffering those circumstances, is there any period in the past in which you would be better off than you would be today? (*) for a modern understanding as to what constitutes homelessness