Despite representing just 8% of the world’s population, the region accounts for nearly one-third of global homicides.
Breaking Latin America’s Cycle of Low Growth and Violence
North and Sub-Saharran Africa are poorer than Latin America but have much less murder going on. What’s going on in Latin America?


Most people have their sufferings. In the end, most people even die from some suffering or other. That is just a part of life, and you cannot substract it away from it.
I don’t know why depression should be so different from all other diseases or troubles. I don’t know why it should affect the value of life? How would you value a life with no arms and legs, for example? How would the person with no arms and legs value their own life? Have you ever asked one?
I think you skipped an interim there.
There must be a lot of things in life you don’t know then. You can be dying of cancer and not be depressed and want to live on. And you can be physically healthy but have a serious depression where you just want to die. If you can’t tell the SUBJECTIVE difference between those two conditions, and why one is more detrimental to quality of life than the other, I don’t see we can have anything to talk about. That level of ignorance is beyond debatable.
You seem to think that…
… deserves so many capital letters AND is the only thing that counts. Well, then maybe I should officially allow you to NOT read my texts anymore.