Your arrogance is astonishing. First of all, that 3rd world country moved a billion people out of absolute poverty without a "human rights revolution", sure there are still plenty of problems around, but progresses are absolutely made simply by making sure people are well fed. I'm not saying human rights/privacy isn't important, but sometimes different things have different priorities. Moral relativism does not imply inaction, it just implies that different people think differently on what is "meaningful". Despite your hubris you can't tell me your priority is more "correct" than mine, and I simply choose to focus on other actions that's meaningful to me.

If you want to resort to name calling then so be it, I've met my share of condescending people who always put themselves on a moral pedestal.

Says the guy living in a $2k a month studio in San Francisco whilst working from his $3k MacBook Pro at Starbucks?

So your answer to everyone living in fear, in let's say Juarez, Mexico is that they need to be out in the streets protesting against the psychotic drug cartels, because that's how they "ought to" live, since you know third world country and all?

I live in an old busted rented house in an old busted neighborhood in an old busted giant city, thank you very much, and type on an old busted workstation salvaged from a university. But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your narrative.

And yeah, maybe that's what needs to happen. Tyrants have never been disposed of by hiding indoors and hoping they'll go away.

Certainly they should be taking the most effective action they can to take down the drug cartels!