Exactly...and also, suffering from horrible diseases that are all but unknown in the developed world. There are many places where it's impossible to get drinki

Exactly...and also, suffering from horrible diseases that are all but unknown in the developed world. There are many places where it's impossible to get drinking water that isn't contaminated with your neighbors' feces. I can't even begin to imagine the horror of getting something like lymphatic filariasis, and having no way to prevent it or cure it. It's really difficult to comprehend how much worse off people have it in the developing world unless you see it firsthand. But it's still a false dichotomy to compare one population against the other as a form of argument. It's not as if we can turn our backs on the homelessness problem in this country because things are worse in the third world.