Why I am leaving the US...

[Hephaestos]

Kasz216 said:

Hephaestos said:

Rath said:

 

There are valid reasons for chosing B, though I personally wouldn't. Basically the argument can be made that peoples happiness due to quality of life depends not on absolute quality of life but on relative quality. It's not retarded to choose it.

What you just said is this:

the reason why B is valid is because some people find happiness only in the despair of others.

 

I agree that you can be happy with little, but the same people that are happy with little will in no way be less happy with more... if anything they'd give away wealth and find happiness in that action.

However, if you speak of "relative quality" than we're not speaking of these people, we're speaking of people that are unhappy not because of what they don't have, but because of what others have and they don't... basing your happiness on whether or not you are jealous of others...I maintain my position, chosing B is retarded.

(though you are right and this is the reason why people would chose B, I wouldn't qualify it as valid)

(oh and I live in france... a country where 70% of the population delects on critisizing and looking on the other side of the fence to say it's unfaire that the others have something they don't.....)

 

Hey, it is one thing Marx was right on though... as long as you could live in a nice house or a shitty house... and as long as the houses nearby you are around the same quality you'll be happy.

I mean hell... I can only imagine how many people are worse off then poor people in the US.  I've hardly got anything by US qualfications... but compaired to a lot of the world?  I'm sitting on top of it.  

Heck my car broke down today and while I was waiting for the the tow truck I met a guy today who's homeless for a few weeks because his bags got stolen on a layover and he's waiting for a bus ticekt..  Bought him some lunch while I waited.  Nice guy, but even he from what he described has it pretty good due to what the local shelters do comparied to a lot of areas in the world.

Quite honestly I'm just happy I don't live in an area where I have to make the choice between risking my life... or risking a female relative being raped just to eat or some other horrible part of the world.

yeah most of the world is probably on the 10-20 area of that scale... but "civilized" countries were at the same level just a few generations ago (most our ancestors lived in small country side villages), doesn't mean they weren't happy. (though yeah the dangers of certain countries probably have an effect on happiness...)