My thoughts exactly!
If I tried my best to imagine I was eating, say, goat cheese, it might go down surprisingly easily!
I like the way you think
Which ties in to your question: would I rather be from Finland or someplace else? And the answer to that would be 'someplace else'. I have always had problems accepting the sheepish groveling to authority and blind trust in the government and its institutions that is so commonplace in Finland. Everyone spouts the same drivel and lives accordingly, "work and pay your outrageously high taxes because your government needs you to be an obedient drone, bow down and submit before authority, obey the good police officer because he is your friend, the doctor knows what's best because he is a medical professional.. blah blah blah". That's the kind of country this is, in a nutshell. Well let me tell you something.. the police is NOT your friend - they may be less corrupt than in many countries, but most of them act like SS-men and misuse their so-called authority (though there are always exceptions). And the government wants to run you ragged in the hamster wheel, bleed you dry and give you sh!tty social services such as a dysfunctional public healthcare system in return for your sky-high taxes. That, and the government ultimately bends over and takes it up the a$$ from a higher authority, the EU, incorporating ridiculous legislation (such as unwarranted restrictions on what you can grow, eat or what kind of supplements you can take) that only makes life more difficult. So yes, I am an advocate of moderate anarchism and libertarianism, and yes, I would rather have been born someplace with a wider acceptance of free thinking. I've never been a herd animal and I'll never become one, no matter how hard this country tries to indoctrinate people and create armies of mindless robots to keep its dysfunctional machine operational. /rant over
Whew! With all that said, there are many pros to living here, too, so it's not all bad
Would you rather go without food for a week or without water for 2 days?