[nemo44x]

When did I say I envy them? Or that those that may envy their purposeful lives would agree with their politics and beliefs they fight for. Only that I could imagine a person with feelings of no purpose could look at them and envy that particular attribute.

[lazyasciiart]

Where you responded to someone who said "if you feel this way do it" not with "I wasn't talking about myself!!" but with "I can't"

[nemo44x]

I mean, I guess you missed the point of my original comment. I juxtaposed Taliban fighters in an impoverished and apparently hopeless place with wealthy and prosperous western civilization and how the man sitting in his home with creature comforts but yet feeling without purpose actually has it right in front of him if only he’s willing to work at it for decades and dedicate himself to something meaningful. That it must fill them with envy that these fighters managed to find a way to make their life meaningful within the context of their situation but yet the man who is in a far more prosperous and peaceful place somehow can’t and spends his days in a fantasy about the collapse of civilization much like the situation in Afghanistan actually has been for 40 years.