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I think you missed my point too. Anyway, who says I can't pass "the Amish" and "the north korean" to compare() along with a custom comparator function? Apples can be compared to oranges, you know. For instance, both apples and oranges are fruit, oranges are more orange than apples...

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As someone who has spent time with Mennonites as well as Amish i am inclined to agree with you. We wonder if they see the phones and music and bright lights and get depressed or disgruntled. They wonder if we notice the insulation from emotions, they dissolution of our basic family structure, our disobedient and spoiled children, and our ballooning bodies. Perspective is a very important aspect when predicting peoples reactions, and most of the time, we amerifats are just convinced we have it better.

I got your point, but it is sad to see how pervasive the western dominance ideology is, as illustrated by someone calling you insane for being unexpected. Interesting, but largely sad.

The Amish do not have multi-generational prison sentences for disobedience, you just get asked to leave.

North Korea is not some peasant utopia that just wants to be left alone, it is a nuclear armed totalitarian state that constantly prepares its citizenry for a ficticious total war.

As for your self titling of we amerifats are just convinced we have it better, well, this belies a core truth, many people suspect you might well have it better simply by so many people in your culture being able to get so fat.

There is a massive difference from a society trying to live simply and one in abject poverty due to mismanagement by a series of crazed mass murderers.

I have read through your comments on this thread. I will respond but i want you to know that i think you are a troll. The worst kind, actually, because you think you actually have a point. You are an undercover troll. you are the Sharon Valeri of trolls. Believing this, i waited for the thread to become vacant to respond to you, you silly billy.

You seem to know very little about the Amish, as everything you have stated about them is Wikipedia grade generalities. They do not need to imprison anyone, as they could just kick anyone out. The system is staggeringly effective, especially if you raise people to believe they belong somewhere but the must make the right series of choices to stay where they belong.

North Korea actually is a peasant utopia that wishes to be alone. (largely peasant population, check. a completely fanciful view of their existence in regards to the world at large, check. wishes to be left alone, infini-check.)

>NK is a nuclear armed totalitarian state that constantly prepares its citizenry for a fictitious war. I should email your previous comments to Kim Jong Un; he could use them as justification for sabre rattling. Your observation could be applied to Israel, Pakistan, India, China, and the United States. If you subtract the Nuclear capability, it could be said about every nation on earth with a standing military. The point of a standing army is not the wars you fought, but the ones you will fight.

>...being able to get so fat. There are fatties everywhere. It boggles the mind.

>...by a series of crazed mass murderers. I want to be very clear about this, and i do not want you to be confused about what i am saying:

You are a shill and a simpleton, and you may not play with my blocks, because i do not want to have to wash off the stupid that will inevitably get all over them from your copious amounts of naivety.

Oh, I think you left a rubber duck. If you don't mind, I'm going to keep him and name him Derek.

Kepp him. I didn't want him anyway.

...stupid duck.

sniff

So that would be a yes to both questions then.

forced comparision.

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