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As a Finn, I'd like to remind you this is 50% bullshit.
They go around asking people how they are and in Finnish culture, you're not allowed to complain, and our society sees to it that we give even substance abusers and drunks rent money, so people answer "can't complain".
Finnish people are emotionally stunted and don't even understand the concept of happiness.
What a load of shit, people complain openly all the time. Foreigners are even shocked when sometimes we're too frank in answering "how are you doing
You think the ranking is bs because we realize that things are pretty good here? People say "can't complain" because they are content with what they got and know things could be a lot worse. It's not being emotionally stunted or some other bs, it's the realization that things are pretty good here.
It's funny, every time we do good in something there's loads of these people who rush to say how it's bs and how we actually suck. Now that's the Finnish spirit.
It's literally measuring contentedness, not happiness.
Saying "Finland is the happiest country in the world" is akin to those studies which say "one glass of wine gives you the benefits of a half hour at the gym" or smth. Completely misunderstood. Based in reality but strongly exaggerated.
It's very different being un-discontented vs being "happy"
I agree that the name can be misleading because different people and different cultures view happiness differently. Life is good here, so we are content. But I disagree that we aren't happy too, we're just happy with fairly little. Some nice peace and quiet at the summer cabin, good sauna, that's happiness.
Fuck right off with that shit. It's the exact type of bullshit I'm talking about.
You just refuse to accept any fault in our systems and me criticising the systems which literally made people break my basic human rights and decency. For days without medication, a day without water. Completely fucking psychotic, drawing with my blood on the walls.
And afterwards, no-one wants to admit this happened. Not my family, not lawyers, not anyone.
But I've the proof, so....
Fuck your "Finnish dream" it's a delusion
Nobody is saying the system is perfect, far from it (with people complaining on the reg), just that we have things a lot better than most places. Which makes it easy to be content and even happy. If recognizing that things are good and being happy with fairly little is a delusion, it's a delusion I'm happy to have, along with a lot of other Finns.
It's like with the corruption thing, when Finland was #1 people rushed to say how there's still corruption in Finland. No shit, but it's a ranking and it's comparing to other countries. We just have less than most.
This sounds pretty personal.
You just won't believe it.
It's insane that I have to argue you about a thing existing which you're giving the perfect textbook demonstration of.
No, it's not "a lot better tham others [so the fact you got tortured doesn't mean anything which is why it's okay for me to. Completely ignore it]"
You're doing the exact autistic denial bullshit that infects 98% of Finnish population
I mean, on all sorts of quality of life rankings and factors we're almost always at the top. If there's such a thing as on objectively good place to live, Finland seems to be one of them. Not sure what you feel like our ranking should be on QoL and what sort of places should rank higher.
If you're very unhappy with life here then I can understand it being hard to believe that others are genuinely happy to live here. If 98% believe that it just might be that it's not them who are in denial.
Again.
Denial.
Literal refusal to even acknowledge the torture that happened.
You believe in things which don't exist and refuse to believe in shit that exists, while saying that it's not a problem that all Finns have that level or reality-escaping built into them.
You're literally deluded worse than North Koreans.
You can not accept a single fault in Finland.
I like the country, which is why I despise cowards like you. Vitun paskahousu.
https://ibb.co/fzF4w32J
You're living in a complete fucking fiction.
https://yle.fi/a/3-5245931
I have evidence and I can discuss reality — something which a coward like you is literally unable to even conceive.
I have no trouble seeing the faults in Finnish system. Again, nobody thinks we're perfect, far from it. But I have no idea about your personal stuff wtf.
You are quite literally avoiding even saying there is a fault to begin with.
When confronted with photographic evidence of torture.
Tä on just sitä välttelyä mistä mä puhuin.
It's called avoidance. And it's a sickeningly strong trait in Finnish. I don't think you understand how deeply that trait is connected to the Finnish people. It's literally in the language when you know what you're looking for. But you can't see it when it's shoved in your face so you definitely won't understand it on that level.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance_coping
Coward
I'm thoroughly puzzled by what the fuck you are on about
Read the conversation back and see how many times you've even implicitly acknowledged I was stuck in a cell writing with blood on the walls, breaking my basic human rights.
The fact that I have to actually spell it out for you IS the problem. That IS the avoidance I'm talking about.
You came to this thread to tell me Finnish people don't do the exact thing you're doing. Congrats.
It's always the same, and I'm tired of how deeply embedded that is in Finnish culture.
Im confused. What happened to you?
A long fucking story that no Finns believe.
Despite me still having the scars and photos to prove it.
Cops deleted the video material.
Tried charging them and reaching out to oikeuasiamies the ombudsman, and they refused to accept fault either.
But do tell if you think cutting of water from a person in active psychosis (because you refused to give them their prescribed medications as "unnecessary"), who's actively bleeding, after he's not slept for three days, is, idk... appropriate and in accordance with Finnish values? (Because it's not in accordance with the universal declaration of basic human rights)
And this isn't the first time you do this.
I be asserted this several times because I know my shit and what the study is actually about.
You alway come in to deny deny deny deny
EXACTLY the sort of willful ignorance
I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you are talking about here. Are you saying we had this conversation last year?
I half agree with this. There's it's own kind of happiness in being stoic and staying to one self.