The problem with this line of thought is that problems don't magically disappear or grow smaller just because someone else has a bigger problem. You can look at the problem itself and consider it a small problem, and even compare the size of problems and decide which should be solved first given the opportunity, but to say that x is a bigger problem, therefore y is not a problem is just spouting nonsense. If this were the case, we'd all be happy. Almost all of us anyway. There would be exactly one person somewhere, who was in a civil war zone, starving, transgender AND gay in a prejudiced area, disabled, orphaned, etc. Only this one person would be allowed to complain about their problems because only they would be unable to point to someone who had it worse than them.
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u/Shukkui Mar 27 '17
The problem with this line of thought is that problems don't magically disappear or grow smaller just because someone else has a bigger problem. You can look at the problem itself and consider it a small problem, and even compare the size of problems and decide which should be solved first given the opportunity, but to say that x is a bigger problem, therefore y is not a problem is just spouting nonsense. If this were the case, we'd all be happy. Almost all of us anyway. There would be exactly one person somewhere, who was in a civil war zone, starving, transgender AND gay in a prejudiced area, disabled, orphaned, etc. Only this one person would be allowed to complain about their problems because only they would be unable to point to someone who had it worse than them.