We are currently experiencing a water shortage in North Adams, and the entire town is without water. This leads to no showers, drinking water, laundry, flushing toilets, clean dishes, etc. I'm trying to figure out, however, whether this is a blessing or a curse. Sure, we are down and out of many "necessities" of life, and the sanitation levels are quickly dropping campus wide. However, compared to a third-world country, say, in central Africa, this is no detrimental issue. They've been living for months, even years, with those shortages, as well as shortages in food, shelter, and protection from diseases. If we step back and look at the luxuries we have in life, we can realize that the things we've temporarily lost are technically privileges, not rights. Therefore, in order to properly assess the situation, we should consider how necessary that of which we have lost is compared to that of which the third-world-country inhabitants have never had.
Do you view this as a blessing or a curse?
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