Cold is Better than Hot

I welcome your new criteria, easy as they will be to debunk. Feel free to add more in Round 2 if you think of any. 1)Rarity - This only proves further that hot is inferior to cold. Because of its scarcity, and colds abundance, it shows tat it is the weak link. Cold obviously holds dominance, and simply is. By that I mean, that nothing needs to fuel cold for it to exist, it just will. But heat will die. Heat has to be fuel by something, but no source is infinite. Cold will survive for as long as the universe exists, while heat will only have a brief stay. Survival of the fittest, and cold is the fit one. 2)Happiness - In the areas you've mentioned, Switzerland and Lithuania, the weather, rather than temperature, is probably to blame. Lithuania, though it is cold, has a general weather pattern of rain and clouds. The same with Switzerland, especially in summer. The same pattern can be seen in Washington and Oregon. They are not generally cold, cool at best most of the time, but constantly raining. The belief is that the dreariness of almost constant RAIN is the cause of depression, then suicide, not necessarily the temperature. Besides, area's like Iraq, Iran, and most of Africa can hardly be described as happy places. Famine, drought, sand storms (all caused by heat) ravage the lands. The standard of living there makes an American Hobo look like middle class. The reason seems to me that the reason hot places have a lower suicide rate is that people are to busy dying to off themselves. Disease can also be attributed to heat as a side effect by the wide spread breeding of insects. Mosquito's cause malaria, a huge killer in both Africa and Southern America. Locusts eat crops, causing starvation all over the world really. So I do not think 'happiness' can really be a factor in the betterment of either hot or cold. But if we did, I would say that a few waterlogged, suicidal Lithuanians are a more acceptable loss than whole nations of Africa. 3) You misunderstand my claim. Jackets are a method of cold management, but there are also parkas, heavy coats, vests, blankets, sleeping bags, sweat shirts, sweaters, hoodies, ski masks, beanies, mittens, gloves, boots, uggs, long johns, wool socks, etc. to cover your body. Any combination can be used to prevent the cold from effecting you. Sure, if you dress to lightly you will still feel the cold, but that only means put on something heavier. Having lived in Monument CO, I've won many heavy coats in cold times, and with the proper combination am quite comfortable in a heavy blizzard. So much so I've even napped in snow drifts. Whereas when it is 90 degrees or more outside there's nothing I can do, even if I did strip down to nothing, to stop feeling the heat. Rather, I have to retreat to my house and stand in front of the air conditioning, and even that is not adequate at times. Cold can be prevented, or at least severely hindered by many methods. But on a hot summer day, there's a very limited number of options at ones disposal to get cool, and even less to be able to truthfully say they are comfortable. 4) Behavior - True, at the time, they excelled, but that time is far gone. The European and Asian empires are infinitely superior. Look at what the Saudia Arabian and Islamic Empires are now, in the modern era. Scraps of power, if that. While the Egyptians were busy using slaves to construct their over sized Lego monuments, the Europeans were developing the true civilization that lasts. Cold inspired invention, and sophistication, were the hot regions managed to get by with savagery and bloodshed. Any British gun could have easily beat the Arabic scimitar. Now the only traced of Egypt's might are in museums, constructed by the 'barbarians' of the North and cold. Hot may have been where we evolved in body, but cold is where we evolved in mind. Of course, there is no absolute certainty that what exists now will remain forever. But it should most certainly be clear that the modern progression of the cold civilizations will long outlast those of the hot. In fact, right now its the hot regions that need a helping hand from the North. Cold means progression because the societies need to develop more and more to survive, while hot means true barbarianism and death. So for these reasons, cold is better than hot. - I'm listening, but I can't quite hear it...