Guyssss!!1! Don't you know how TRIGGERING that is??!?1! Some people just sexually identify as an entire website, and they are COMPLETELY VALID #feminism
Excellent point. People use "third world" as shorthand for "impoverished" when all it means is a non NATO aligned country which didn't side with western capitalism or soviet communism during the Cold War. While many live below the standards of first world nations, the term doesn't automatically mean destitute.
This is true- but it's also important to remember that someone always has it worse. It's relative. If you're in third world poverty, can someone else say "that's not pain, in xyz country it's even poorer AND they are in the middle of a warzone!" Another persons pain doesn't invalidate yours. People literally cannot understand what they haven't experienced- the closest they can come is to relate it to something they know. The worst suffering one person experiences may objectively seem smaller than another's pain, but to them it is still the greatest pain they've ever known. That's not a free pass to selfishness, but it's sometimes hard to have compassion and keeping this in mind can help put things in perspective. At the end of the day you either care another human is in pain or you don't, you can justify it anyway you want for your own self image but that's the bottom line.
When I went to Peru two years ago, I went to the mountainous area of Peru. Sometimes we would pass villages while going in between places and there were so many people without shoes, it was so sad.
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I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders from the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru
BUT THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE LONDON
BUT THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE LONDON