Quote from: goxed on January 29, 2020, 11:58:48 AM

the 9 million people who live like ants, in stinky insulated cottages, burning oil and wood to heat them, where AC is a remote concept, hardly drive any cars, and in a tiny mountainous isolated region full of cows.

Yeah, and they eat chocolate all day that comes out of blue cows' horns.
Switzerland is the 10th in vehicle ownership per capita, with four countries being obviously not suited for these criteria ( San Marino or Liechtenstein).
And while the US might have more cars per capita they also have older cars by an average of 2 years.
Also, it is ranked 93 in the world by cattle numbers, but who cares about facts, right?

I assume for you it's a matter a pride to live in a natural not insulated cave by the seaside and heat yourself with an air conditioner.
But it's nice to see people ready to throw shit an entire country just to defend their point of view.

Quote from: gentlemand on January 29, 2020, 11:18:51 AM

If people could conceive of those warehouses filled with screaming machines when they tip that camgirl to shove an egg whisk up her arse they might have rather different feelings.

Yeah, but the moment the image is gone they would stop caring.
We do the same all the time, for most of my friends a trip to my family farm would be traumatic and they would have problems eating a hamburger but after a few days....Same with clothes, we're enraged when finding out they are made by child labor but a week after we care only about the price tag. And it's a never-ending list.

In the end, it is the personal interest that matters, it's the only thing that stays with us, feelings come and go.