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[APeacefulWarrior]

None of the above.  I choose to fix it.

Out of sheerest curiosity, are you doing anything practical to "fix" the situation? Or does your definition of "fix" simply mean "Cheering for a global collapse while praying something better rises from the ashes of the world"....?

Either way, though, that just illustrates my point: You are choosing to live in circumstances which cause you to feel enslaved, even when there are many other options available for other ways of living. What kind of "slavery" is it which you are effectively free to walk away from at any point? If you voluntarily choose to remain behind to help -in whatever way you feel is helping- then fine, great. That doesn't mean you're a slave. If anything, it means the exact opposite.

By that slavery logic, every Wanderer on Earth is a "slave" for choosing to try to come help rather than staying on the other side.

It's not for me.  I don't care what you think, unless you actually add to a discussion.  Many others don't like to feel judged when bringing up a point which you just happen to disagree with.  You don't know the first thing about what GreatSpirit posted, yet you felt the need to make a fairly considerable judgment about it and him in a backhanded way.  That kind of has a tendency to shut down a discussion.

Tendency?  Once again, this is an open forum and you are free to write whatever you like.  To rephrase my questions above, why should you care what some a-hole American expat living halfway around the world thinks about your ideas?  If you TRULY did not care, you would be posting whatever you wanted without any regard for whether I agree, disagree, or whatever else.

Plus, if you haven't noticed, I will leave a thread if the consensus is firmly against me - like in that "war war war" thread. Except I don't do it while claiming I'm somehow a slave just because other people disagree with me. I make a choice to express my opinion, then I make a choice to cease expressing that opinion while allowing others to continue expressing their opinions. Simple. On the other hand, you have repeatedly pointed at me as an excuse for your decisions in what to write.  You try to hand off power over yourself to someone who resolutely DOES NOT WANT that power.  I reject your scapegoating.  You have free will.  You have the freedom to write whatever you want.  And if you choose not to exercise that freedom, that is 100% entirely a deliberate willful act of self-restraint.

(Just like your willful decision to continue living someplace where you feel oppressed.)

Not to mention, GreatSpirit has said nothing like that.  You are projecting your own self-image onto GreatSpirit, scapegoating me on his behalf.  In the process, you are also dis-empowering GreatSpirit and discrediting his own free will. Are you truly that devoted to your slavery point of view, that you'll simply assume everyone around you lacks agency in their own actions and invent oppressors for them?