[wwn_se]

1000s of children die everyday due to diarrhoea caused by unclean water. About a 1 000 000 die every year from malaria mostly children. Just to name a few things.

The world is a hard unforgiving place for millions, we should never forget that.

[TeMPOraL]

> The world is a hard unforgiving place for millions, we should never forget that.

Agreed. But I'll go even further and say: we should keep the cruelty of the world in mind in order to a) fix it, or support those who try to fix it, and b) treasure the practices, institutions and technologies that shield us from suffering that fate.

If people in the Western world were more acutely aware of how life without clean water looks like, then maybe maintaining infrastructure wouldn't be that big of a problem it now is.

[kaba0]

I absolutely agree with your points, but at the same time we can only worry about a fixed amount of things, and stress is very unhealthy — so from a purely mental well-being point of view, constantly thinking of all the bad things around the globe is not a good thing to do. Especially when we have a hard time actually effecting the given thing.

I don’t know what should be the solution, perhaps it would be the task of elected politicians to try to fix the problems in place of the population, even in other countries? Which do happen, but it should be much more prevalent.

[NL807]

Keep in mind, this is out of a population of 7.6 billion. Yes, lot of people die from terrible things. But the chance of someone suffering in the worst possible way (as depicted in those videos) is unlikely for most humans. That said, we could certainly do better.

[killtimeatwork]

The old age is where it sucks the most, and money/being privileged can only help so much. For example, even with money for great care, it is just torture to be mostly immobilized in bed, in pain, half-deaf and with mild dementia (this describes someone I personally know). And some variant of this is in the cards for a lot of us.