RE: Argument of first world problems - WRONG!
January 7, 2015 at 8:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2015 at 8:30 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 7, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Blackout Wrote: I am talking about a situation when I bring up an issue/problem and justify it - For example, I say that being gay is something people still discriminate against in the west - And you hypothetically say "It doesn't matter we should focus on third world countries where being gay is a crime and could even get you executed" - Understand now?Interestingly, I actually had the reverse of this conversation. I knew a guy who was volunteering in Africa, and I asked him why he had to go all the way to Africa to find poor people to help. Frankly, if I were to be the volunteer type, I'd go more for being Big Brother to troubled teens, handing out sandwiches in poor areas, or something.
The problem with helping the most troubled is that they are usually parts of fucked-up cultures: anti-women, child abusing, and muslim. Yeah, I said it. I'm not sure that it's in my best interest to support Muhammad in teaching his 20 little Muhammads, most of whom will survive thanks to my monthly payments toward their food and medicine, how to read and write, and how to make enough money to buy plane tickets. *hmmm-- why do I feel kind of dirty and guilty for saying that?*
Anyway, unless your line of reasoning is aimed at establishing global truths, then anything you say about a local truth shouldn't be "trumped" by a general truth. It should not be said that someone else's terminal cancer makes researching better cold medicines unimportant, for example.
