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Personally I like refrigeration, modern medicine, transportation, and high technology. Maybe those aren't your thing, but I know if I was born into a society li
by s_q_b 13y ago
Personally I like refrigeration, modern medicine, transportation, and high technology. Maybe those aren't your thing, but I know if I was born into a society like that, I would spend my life trying to see what was beyond the water.
Or die. Because, you know, a lot of them die.
- freyr 13y agoWe all die.
- chronic25 13y agoThey die sooner.
- johnchristopher 13y agoI am pretty sure parent wanted to point out that we live much longer.
- rapind 13y agoLife's good when you're at the top of the totem poll. However, if the greener grass turns out to be a Mumbai slum or an e-waste site in China, or one of many other terrible but more realistic fates, maybe you'd pass on that opportunity... because, you know, a lot of people die there too.
- s_q_b 13y agoI'd take a job in a factory churning out iPhones in China over dying a slow and painful death from gangrene that started as an ingrown toenail. People in the first world romanticize ancient ways of life, but the reality is that life without basic technology is nasty, brutish, and short. Another blind spot is that there are degrees of bad. Living in a village in northern Afghanistan is better in a lot of ways than living in Darfur, which is better than Somalia. Honestly, people didn't choose to live in cities and work long hours in factories because we tricked them. They do it because it's better than their previous existence.
- LukeShu 13y ago> They do it because it's better than their previous existence. Something to consider is that if some members of a society choose the new existence (provided by the new outsiders), then it can undermine the rest of the society.
- true_religion 13y agoI don't think its really fair to deny people a chance at a better life as they see it, simply because it'll negatively impact the original community they came from.