sure let me just walk to a better country
hey wait why are there people with guns around me
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stefano@lemmy.world 8 months agoYou CAN do something: change you job, study something to improve your skills, change country if you must.
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
stefano@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man the US are not the world, in the civilized world you don’t get shot for migrating…
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I wish I was in the us lol
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Not always. For example, I’m 100% disabled with a neurodegenerative disease for which there’s no treatment or cure.
This is good advice if you’re not locked in a situation entirely out of your control, but for plenty of people it’s not that simple.
stefano@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sorry, but all civilized countries in the word offer some social assistance to people in your situation. Put together all disabled people and their families and fight for your rights.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
People have been fighting for those rights for decades. That doesn’t change the fact some people are destitute because of health issues with no way to improve their personal situation. And if I had the physical ability to organise people and fight for things, I’d have the ability to work. I’m not sure you know what ‘100% disabled’ actually means.
stefano@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are a lot of disabilities, so I don’t know… in my country you could have a 100% physical disability but be in your mind (quadriplegic for example), and in fact there was a person in this condition that fought the government in court and won forcing the government to legislate in his favor and others in similar conditions.
orcrist@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The important point is not to do something, but rather to solve the problem. And some people simply can’t, and it sucks.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I don’t think that’s true. Humans are incredibly good at solving problems, so I really don’t think “can’t” is really ever applicable. The tighter the spot, the more ingenuity it takes to solve the problem. But a solution can always be found or created.
You may not be able to solve the program now, but you can probably do something to help you solve it later.
philthi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is reductive to the point of absurdity, if this were true no one would ever die from any problem (i.e. drowning, falling, etc.) They’d simply activate ingenuity.
Some problems do not have a solution in a given circumstance.
E.g. I’m locked in a prison on a sinking ship that’s already 1km underwater, and my cell is completely full of water and I’ve held my breath for 2 minutes now.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I should’ve added “given enough time” to that statement.
My take is that if you accept that there’s nothing you can do, then that’s it. If you don’t accept that, you have a chance of improving the outcome, even if it’s small. Giving up never improves your outcomes, there’s always something you can try that both won’t make things worse and might make things better.
In your scenario, you have two options: accept death or try something. Since you aren’t going to make it worse, you might as well try something. Some options:
Literally any of those has a higher chance of success than doing nothing, and if you had more time, one of the first three might even work. If by some miracle you get out, the next step is to look for a pocket oh air. And so on. Take it one step at a time.
orcrist@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Of course there are unsolvable problems. This is true in both theory and practice. If your family member has late-stage cancer, let’s suppose.
saze@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Humans are incredible at filtering, therefore a solution can float right on by if it isn’t the “right one”. Also solutions to most problems come by as a result of completely unrelated activity. Therefore it is incredibly important to be doing something, anything that isn’t directly destructive to your goals.