Why does mass violence and war erupt in 3rd world countries?
We don’t resort to violence in the west because we have much more to lose than just our lives. We are attached to so much; our families, our homes, our cars, our shopping sprees, our nice restaurants, our way of life.
When your way of life consists of constant discomfort, perpetual hunger, threats of life-ending disease, and rape and threats of death, you are willing to lose a lot more in order to gain another day of life and security and fleeting comfort or respite from hunger.
And in a strange kind of way and through some twisted logic, I feel these people may be more alive than most of us will ever be.
