Originally Posted by
Tark
You need to see the world my friend... you need to explore those places and see the politics and education these people have. Unlike what you think you do need an education to rise up agaisnt a government, you need education to realize the land youre ancesters have lived on for thousands of years might be prone to such disaters, you need support to move to a land with less risks.
IMO you're blinded by the comfort level we have here in the "developped world" and you wouldn't imagine how some people live in the world. I'm not talking how they live in shacks, i'm talking relize that what seam common sense to you is actaully from education, support, ressources. All of that which we take for granted a third of the world lives without.
it doesnt take education tark to look at a flood that happens every year and realize maybe you should at least be ready for it every spring in simple ways as small as building an earthen damn. you had people thousands of years ago with enough common sense to do things like this.
do we have it good here in the US? yea but that doesnt make us blinded. common sense does not come from education ... hence it being called common sense. a cat sticks its nose in a candle once and gets burned ... that cat is going to be very leary of anything fire from then on. That's basic common sense, if a cat can have it so can someone in a hut who lives in china with an oppressive govt. it's a sense of survival ... and if you dont have it or are too stupid to at least listen to it then i have no pity for you.
as for people standing on a podium and talking ... there is non better on here than you because everytime there is a thread like this your first response is well you're all american and dont know anything about the rest of the world.