I find the idea that such comparisons are unhelpful to be strange I guess. Avoiding such comparisons for... I'm not actually sure why you would want to avoid them... It serves the purpose of stifling the conversation and limiting knowledge of how people experience the world
I think my point is that the depth you need to go to for a meaningful comparison is beyond what can regularly/sensibly achieved on a platform such as BlueSky. If I wanted to look at parallels and differences - beyond just entirely superficially - I'd need room and time to look at cases in detail 1/
which, like I said, is not really possible here. Which in turn leads me to my conclusion (that - at least here - its probably going to be more constructive to discuss issues more narrowly). Like - I think it'd be interesting to discuss differences between Europe and the US, but my feeling is 2/
we don't even share the vocabulary to do so (sensibly). fin/3