• randomperson@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Really. I don’t know how exactly looks day to day life in other countries but my country feels extremely safe compared to what I sometimes read about the US or Western Europe (not to mention countries like Brazil or Mexico or some African countries). To be honest people here in Poland don’t even think about such things as being killed or just even mugged randomly because chances it would happen are lower than winning at EuroJackpot.

      • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com
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        1 year ago

        Western Europe reporting in, I don’t really ever get afraid of being killed, it’s hardly a thing. I think it might either be a US only thing (because you know… guns) or just you and me getting a distorted view of what the sentiment actually is across the pond because we’re only seeing it through the Internet.

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          1 year ago

          As a gay men living in western Europe, I do feel unsafe. Probably not as much as I would feel if I was living in other parts of the world, but still.

          To be fair I feel unsafe around eastern groups of people, no surprise there.

      • kingludd@lemmy.basedcount.comOPM
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        1 year ago

        Speaking for the US, there is selection bias for violence in the news. Most people have no need to fear violence in their daily lives. There is sometimes aggression, especially from cops and others with delusions of authority. But it’s rare that it escalates to outright physical violence.

        That said, and speaking to the meme, if you don’t pay to live violence will be swift and unambiguous.