| >Is there a reason you have brought up the inferiority of third-world countries in your last several comments? Is there a reason you have been "stalking" my last several comments across different threads? Checking what this or that commenter wrote in different threads to call them on it is kind of abusive. For my part, the reason is quite simple: I first wrote about such countries in a thread, and so had the situation there fresh in mind when I encountered a couple of other threads with similar issues. I've also travelled and worked in those places for periods of time, so I also have them in mind. Also, note that I didn't bring up the "inferiority of third-world countries" (those are your words). I mentioned how they drive in some of them - which I don't find inferior. If anything it's more lively and less obsessed with cushioning the individual, which I appreciate). In another comment I mentioned how countries near the tropics where billions live have lots of mosquitos and lots of heat -- and that was again in a positive spin, to contrast someone complaining about how Houston was unlivable before air-conditioning because of such things. And that's it, a grand total of 3 comments, 2 about traffic patterns and driving, and one about heat/mosquitos. Not all places I mentioned are "third world" either. I explicitly included e.g. China which is the 1-2 biggest economies in the world. Do you consider all of those places "third world"? >Blind comparisons (to put things into perspective) aren't useful. "Blind" is a weasel word without which there's no argument above. Those are not "blind comparisons", they are simply "comparisons". Putting things into perspective is extremely useful alone. In fact you first need to put things into perspective (survey what's going on across countries/domains/etc) and only _then_ form your "point". Else it's just a priori dogma. |