Deep Post: Born into a privileged country

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Read this short rant from Jamie Dunmore who if you haven't heard of him, please check out his youtube channel, absolutely amazing. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_d...7B5kTdZWEkIL3Q

Anyways read this and tell me what you think.

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As if being born into a privileged country gives you the right to have privileges. This is why I am against nationalism. Some act as if they have earned the lifestyle they were born into. For example, it's like me saying "Britain is my country because I was born here. Therefore I deserve Britain's privileges." Right, but so does everybody else on the planet. Unless there's evidence before birth suggesting that you personally worked harder than others and you sacrificed in order to deserve the life you were born into (in a privileged country), then you don't really deserve better than those who were born into suffering. It's like the Queen of England having privileges simply because she was born into the royal family... it's a genetic lottery. It's flawed, biased and unfair.


This doesn't mean none of us deserve. It just means that those less fortunate, also deserve. I guess it's a philosophical issue. My view is that we have a soul and the soul enters a certain body out of luck. Some would say fate, but I disagree with that because the world's state of affairs and the areas that suffer are a result of mankind's free will and not mother nature. Therefore, suffering is not objective, but subjective. My soul could have ended up in a body in central Africa.


I've said it so many times and I will never stop saying it... being born into a privileged country is luck. Understanding this is what gives me the drive to be an activist. I don't believe that it is my right to live it up whilst others are suffering because of man's faults. Until the whole world is stable... I cannot rest properly. If I was born into suffering, hunger and poverty... I would expect help from other nations. I don't mean charities or physical labour, it's not about me going there to help because that would be transient and it would never remove the problem. The problem is our psychology. The problem is the collective and what we generally see as morally right/wrong.


Jamie Dunmore


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OT: I don't care for him

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Sounds like an idiot, he says in the same breath that you're not owed anything and that everyone's owed the world

Also he calls himself an activist when he's a youtube poet

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vague rhetoric that most people will agree with but isn't really any substance to what he's saying there. The soul thing was a bit weird too.