I have no clue where you live, but I live in an eastern european country and I fail to see how can life be better anywhere outside western democracies. Even li

I have no clue where you live, but I live in an eastern european country and I fail to see how can life be better anywhere outside western democracies. Even living in the poor part of the EU is still a lot worse then living in the good part. >Life here is beautiful snort > the sense of community is so much stronger than it is in the west the community is precisely why I dislike my country. I can't imagine worse torture then being force to live your life with close-minded ignorant people stuck in the past. Go and be gay or atheist or just strange in your country then tell me how beautiful your life is. >overall I'd say that people are less stressed. On the flip side, many things are harder for sure - wages are low and working hours are long, good healthcare is hard come by for many people. As long as you don't care if you starve or die of illness it's all great. So literally the basics of security. >life is not "nasty, brutish, and short" sure, it's just relatively nastier, more brutish and objectively shorter in years of life. >Perhaps, in future, before making such statements about the lives of people from cultures other than your own, you could take a few moments to try and empathize with them instead? I don't need empathy when I feel it on my own skin. Pretty weak all in all.