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Originally Posted by Slava
You didn't lose everything. You had all of your personal effects, all of your pictures and mementos and everything. These people lost EVERYTHING. Have a look at the houses in Bragg Creek or High River where the floods have clearly destroyed those peoples possessions. People have died in the severity and thousands have been evacuated. I'm not going to argue this with you, basically because its the completely wrong thing to do. But people losing their homes in the midst of a global economic recession is not comparable to people heading to work when all is well Thursday morning and then finding out they lost their homes.
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That's exactly what you're doing though.
I don't know that losing your personal effects is easier or harder than losing your job and financial security. It would depend on the individual situation.
But I do know that either situation sucks pretty badly. Why bother with making it a contest?