The context I added was that of the facts I construed from the shreds of events and opinions I met. They are not there to be compared to "starvation" as a param

The context I added was that of the facts I construed from the shreds of events and opinions I met. They are not there to be compared to "starvation" as a parameter with scalars of "what is worse": they are in the same cone of "something bad happening", in front of which simplistic dismissals are puzzling.