3run, that's the problem of sentences with 'everyone', 'all', 'always' - we don't know who is actually meant. In case of 'to live like in the west' there are actually a lot of people who dream of that - not such a bad dream, when living in poverty or under dictatorship like the fugitives who try to get to Europe...
Let's call it 'to be free to live one's own way of life'.
Quote:
The picture wasn't put up to taunt the victims of the Iraq war. It represented my realization that the OP is not willing to change his mind based on anything I said.
It wasn't possible to decipher it that way.
Anyway, in discussions it is easy to get that impression of one's opponent, but don't expect a change of the others opinion right within the discussion.
Beliefs are not meant to be skipped or switched after one argument, they have settled within a certain time, and changes have to grow over time while weighting such argument in comparison with other beliefs which seem to contradict.