No car, plane rides or children. I also eat less meat than average, rarely buy new (or used) stuff and vote for one of the greener parties.
I grew up (first world) poor, so this was just the way things were, when I was a child. My income is still quite low but I could absolutely live more lavishly than I do now, if I wanted to.
Your lines are so clean!
I think you could argue that this is an example of cognitive dissonance. It is uncomfortable to come face to face with new information that contradicts your beliefs or actions, and it requires energy if you want to integrate that new information into your worldview and adjust your actions. It is much easier to deny that information, even when it is clearly true.
For example, when it came out that aspartame might cause cancer, if you (like me) have eaten/drunk a lot of products containing it or have had a strong belief that it was completely safe, then it may be more comfortable for you to criticize WHO or think "well, it's not really relevant for me because my family isn't predisposed for cancer." If you didn't care about aspartame or artificial sweeteners before, you will probably readily accept that there may or may not be a cancer link.
In Danish we say "endestation" instead, which can be translated as butt-station. Sometimes the endestation is Middelfart, or somewhere on Lolland.
Jeg ville ikke bekymre mig så meget om at finde det helt rigtige telt. Find et billigt telt som passer til jeres behov når det kommer til størrelse og privatliv, som kan holde til lidt vind og regn. Det vil ikke holde for evigt, og når det en dag går i stykker, har i nogle ting at gå efter når i skal købe det næste.
Som barn havde vi et billigt stort telt fra Harald Nyborg som blev brugt sporadisk gennem 10 år. Det var ikke af en fantastisk kvalitet, og alligevel var det faktisk udmærket. Jeg tror det nåede med til både Sverige, Finland, på ølejr og flere ridelejre og danske campingpladser, før det afgik ved døden.
Having your groceries delivered or buying a moped or motorcycle might be an option for you. I don't think anyone on here would begrudge you using a car in that situation, though.
I think the anti-rural sentiment you sometimes see, mostly stems from how unsustainable and car dependent the lifestyles a lot of people who live outside cities are. People who find a job in a city to get a high pay, move out of said city to get a garden and then commute back and forth between their home office and their work office, with very little concern for how they effect the world around them. They take no personal responsibility and don't want to take collective responsibility either, because that could threaten their lifestyle.
People who live in suburbs, villages or rurally because that is where it makes sense for them to live, isn't an issue. It makes sense to move to the countryside when you retire and no longer have to be anywhere. It also makes sense to live in the countryside if that is where you work or if you work from home. Some of these people would benefit greatly from owning a car, while others can get by just fine with a bicycle or their own legs.
You can also do a lot to lessen the dependence on cars outside city centers. You can easily run metros and trams into the suburbs and encourage a higher density (more row houses and smaller apartment complexes). Rurally you can encourage people to build villages (clusters of houses) instead of every house being spaced evenly apart, and you can run bus lines through those villages.
I think some people's self-worth relies on them being "good"/right/perfect, so they can't apologize without also hurting themselves. I don't really get it either, because in my experience being able to apologize when you need to, is a huge strength. People will overlook almost any mistake you've made when they know that you feel bad about it, instead of having it turn into an useless conflict.
Even if you don't feel like apologizing surely you can say "I didn't mean to hurt you and I'll try not to do it again" or even "I didn't mean to hurt you but I don't really care about your feelings/I think you're being unreasonable" so you know where they stand.
Jeg tror desværre at at der er nogle danskere som i smug prøver samme løsning af.
Det kommer aldrig til at fungere, deres kultur er på ingen måde kompatibel med vores.
De kommer her fra Tyskland, på trods af at vi har fået sat et vildsvinehegn op, og så sidder de bare hjemme og skyder unger ud mens de snylter på vores vildtbestand. Ikke nok med det, men de bryder også ind hos folk og stjæler deres får og spiser deres katte! Send dem hjem hvor de kommer fra! Eller endnu bedre, send dem til Grønland!
Jeg tror det handler mere om livsvilkår end kultur.
For rigtig mange filippinere og indere ville det at arbejde som SOSU i Danmark, være en forbedring af deres levevilkår. For danskere som er vokset op i middelklassehjem kan det nemt blive til en forringelse, og selv os underklassedanskere kan se at det giver langt mere mening at blive elektriker eller djøfer. Det er ærgerligt, for jeg tror egentlig at der er mange som gerne vil omsorgsfagene og som ville trives i dem, hvis arbejdsforholdene var bedre.
Hvis man gør det ordentligt tror jeg godt man kunne lave en ordning som gavner alle parter, men spørgsmålet er om vores politikere er interesserede i det.
I get that, but those were the kind of nuances and perspectives that I was talking about. You can think that drunk driving is a bad thing that should be prevented, without resorting to black/white thinking like: drunk drivers are bad and they should be thrown in jail.
Maybe they should be, but what is the downsides of that policy? What is the reduction in drunk driving and drunk driving accidents expected to be? Who are the drunk drivers and when do they drive drunk? What do they do in other places/countries? Anything about our country/area in particular that causes people to drive drunk? Is there anything else we could do that is more effective and/or less expensive? Could an alternative solution be to run busses through the night? Involve parents? Require alcolocks to be installed in cars?
It's not about whether you are a good or a bad person, or about what your beliefs or values are. In my experience, poorly educated people are just more likely to think in absolutes, which makes sense, because analytical thinking and the ability to view things through different "lenses" and from different perspectives, is something they try to teach you in school.
I think school/work days would be shorter and more intense. Small talk and chit chat would not be an integrated part of a work/school day, but instead something that happened before or after school/work if you wanted to. A meeting wouldn't start with 10 minutes of "how have you been?" or random jokes, but instead jump right into business. Working from home would also be more common.
Having a niche hobby or working with something niche would be way more common, and hobbies would be viewed as more important than they are today. People without any hobbies or interests would be viewed as really weird.
Practical and comfortable clothes would also be more common, and fashion would be more erratic/varied. Pop culture would be less of a thing.