Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
You are quite literally avoiding even saying there is a fault to begin with.
When confronted with photographic evidence of torture.
Tä on just sitä välttelyä mistä mä puhuin.
It’s called avoidance. And it’s a sickeningly strong trait in Finnish. I don’t think you understand how deeply that trait is connected to the Finnish people. It’s literally in the language when you know what you’re looking for. But you can’t see it when it’s shoved in your face so you definitely won’t understand it on that level.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance_coping
Coward
I’m thoroughly puzzled by what the fuck you are on about
Read the conversation back and see how many times you’ve even implicitly acknowledged I was stuck in a cell writing with blood on the walls, breaking my basic human rights.
The fact that I have to actually spell it out for you IS the problem. That IS the avoidance I’m talking about.
You came to this thread to tell me Finnish people don’t do the exact thing you’re doing. Congrats.
It’s always the same, and I’m tired of how deeply embedded that is in Finnish culture.
Who peed in your cornflakes today?
So you’re trying to score internet points by ridiculing a victim of torture.
Cool beans man, definitely proves me wrong, right?
Nope. Just asking who peed in your cornflakes today.
Why?
Because I can’t be criticising me being tortured and that torture being ignore by literally every single Finnish person I know isn’t a good enough reason to be annoyed, someone must have “pissed in my breakfast”.
For your info, I can’t eat milk anymore. The PTSD I got was so bad my GI symptoms got wildly over fucked and now I’m on a really restrictive diet.
But hey.
At least you made a comment you think is wisecrackin as fuck. “Put me in my place”, right, gansta?
Im confused. What happened to you?
A long fucking story that no Finns believe.
Despite me still having the scars and photos to prove it.
Cops deleted the video material.
Tried charging them and reaching out to oikeuasiamies the ombudsman, and they refused to accept fault either.
But do tell if you think cutting of water from a person in active psychosis (because you refused to give them their prescribed medications as “unnecessary”), who’s actively bleeding, after he’s not slept for three days, is, idk… appropriate and in accordance with Finnish values? (Because it’s not in accordance with the universal declaration of basic human rights)
Its pretty hard to belive it when every encounter i personally have with police has been good and fair and everyone i know to hate “pigs” hate them because they have broken the law themself. I think my experience is pretty common one and to me personally, one person ranting online is not enough to change my lifelong experience.
What pictures are you talking about? The one about the holding cell? That in its self does not mean anything.
This is what I mean.
How in the hell do you defend keeping someone locked up when they don’t eat or don’t sleep and you keep their PRESCRIBED antipsychotics from them.
I have doctors statements showing my bleeding and infected arma from after that treatment. I’ve a psychotherapist’s diagnosis of PTSD of it
I wouldn’t have believed it before it happened, but it did.
And you have literally zero empathy and willfully ignore the evidence. Just claim “no didn’t happen that’s probably faked image”.
Have you ever tries eating a part of your own body? I chewed the end of pinky off, a I could use it as a paintbrush.
300 words. WORDS. ON MY OWN BLOOD.
Just pleased explain to me how it makes sense in your little head that putting me in an isolation cell “for my protection”, while under constant supervision, someone would let this happen?
They also deleted the footage. Want to hear the phone call with my lawyer when he talks about it?
You still wouldn’t believe it.
This is exactly what I mean. Deluded people excusing authoritarianism, because “oh but the police were always polite to me”.
Youre deluded and doing hardcore avoidance, which is endemic to Finland or at least Finns and that’s been my point all the time.
Want to put a reminder for two years because ECHR takes years to handle human rights violation cases.
I starred filming the cops the instant they forced my door open and came into my apartment without a permission. (Search warrants aren’t like in the US, but you do need to be a senior constable to be able to decide it, neither of them were.)
The 6s bit I managed to film I used, and Korkein oikeus agreed with me.
https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html
You’re just deluded. Willfully ignorant. Guess what things that leads in a society? "Oh everything is well, these well documented abuses definitely don’t happen because officers on the street know how to smile at me at traffic stops.
I never had a single issue with cops either. Until they abused me.
You trust you have rights because they’re in the law. Unfortunately doesn’t matter at all. The cops investigating themselves? Guess if they found fault about themselves?
In the US at least there’s people who demand their rights, which is why they can’t have entirely cases mistrialed, because there’s actually people in the US who believe and understand people have rights.
You don’t even have the capacity for empathy, much less an understanding of human rights or standing up for justice.
Coward.
I dont think you understood my point and to be honest i did wrote it badly.
If you can, take a step back and think pragmatically.
On the one side is the experiences that you and your close circle has. So long in your life everybody who has had the opposide opinion have been untrustworthy persons.
Then the other side. Random person on random forum ranting and telling tales that sound impossible and goes against all of your personal experiences while being agressive and rude.
Can you see why people wont respond well to you?
Also about the hs link you provided is behind paywall. Is this the case in question? isint this a victory? Police did wrong and korkeinoinoikeus fixed it. Sure its shitty for it to be a long prosess, but things with law are slow. No way around it.
About the holding cell incident. I just need some proof other than random picture of something that you say is a holding cell.
Also legal system and prisons in USA are joke, it way too broad subject to speak in here, but if somebody says their private owned prisons, three strike system, legal slavery and system that does nothing to rehabilate prisoners is better than system in Finland i automatically think that they are either uninformed or stupid.
Also cannabis should be legal.
Fuck right off.
I he heard that a million times. You refusing to accept reality doesn’t mean I haven’t considered I’m wrong.
“You and your close circle”
No. Fucking Finland. More human rights violations than the rest of the Nordics combined.
You’re just another delusional sääntöhuora who is literally unable to accept reality
https://yle.fi/a/3-5245931
Please give me a version of what happened to that cell which you think is legal and proper.
You and Kusimulkku are textbook examples of the sickening trait I’m talking about.
Oh they “fixed it” huh? The cops didn’t get any sanctions at all. I didn’t get even a letter informing me I was right. Had to read it from the papers.
In the US, where this sort of sääntöhuoraaminen isn’t a natural trait unlike it is for Finns, the whole trial would’ve been mistrialed and I’ve would’ve actually got compensation.
But no.
People like you disgust me.
Oh. Did your feelings get all hurt and you need to now swear and act like a big boy?
Grow up and learn to talk like adult and maybe people start listening you.
Btw that yle link you like to share is from 2009.
And dont be delutional. In states police has shot people for filming them and you would be in much bigger trouble for cultivating.
And about that picture. Like most people i dont tend to take random pictures in internet as facts if there is nothing backing it up. Especially if the picture comes from somebody who seem to be as polite and well adjusted as you.
So far everything what you have said has only enforced my view that people who have problems with law enforcement are criminals who are crying after they have fucked around and found out.
Please do.
You’re too naive to actually realise the dangers of being complacent to authoritarianism. Unchecked power grows in corruption.
“I don’t take random pictures as facts.”
No, you’re in denial. You don’t want to say I’ve faked the picture, because clearly I haven’t, yet you have no alternative explanation as to how such a thing could happen in Finland. I would not have believed this possible before it was done to me. And I know proper criminals, people who have done time for murder, torture, kidnapping.
“Fuck around and find out”
You’re a disgusting piece of shit with no morals. You wouldn’t dare say any of this even on voice-chat with me. I double-dare you. Prove me wrong. https://discord.gg/EATXXJUt
You think that if the cops mistreated someone, that person must have deserved it, because you are UNABLE to accept that Finland may have systemic, wide corruption. That the Finnish police may not actually follow the rule of the law, as it’s written. I know that it’s hard for someone like you to accept. Which is the exact point.
Oh, so it doesn’t matter when our police torture people, because they don’t murder people on the street? You don’t see how pathetically childish of you it is to even pull such an argument up?
I’ll edit this comment from my phone to add two images. One is my pinky, about a week after I got out. The other is the second image from the cell.
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And the only reason I have even the images is they tried charging me with vandalism of the cell. By writing in blood. I told my lawyer to ask for the video surveillance they must have of this vandalism. Never got any. They “lost” the video. And dropped the charge.
Just for the tiniest while. Try and use your imagination and imagine what it would feel like to suffer through that. I was detained under the suspicion of a huumausainerikos. That has the maximum punishment of two years, same as törkeä ylinopeus. There was very clearly zero conection to any sales, any distribution and it was very clearly personal use. So they had absolutely no reason to change my detainment into an arrest. I had had a nap up to that point, as I was ready to face the fine that I would get, because this is a finable offense (literally no-one goes to prison for a huumausainerikos unless you’ve literally 10 or more of them while on parole), just like speeding.
I asked why I’m being arrested. They said “we already told you”. I began to ask them over the radio for my lawyer and my rights. They told me “no, they’ve already been explained.”
I can quote you lex.fi legislation where it shows that during detainment or arrest you are always allowed to have a physical copy detailing your rights.
They took away my mattress, slept on a cold floor, without a blanket, with the water turned off. And I have a congenital kidney defect.
They got mad at me because they’re fascistic little piggies (the guards who do the guarding at the police station are not police officers, but police officer wannabes with uniforms similar otherwise but it reads “vartija”) who got annoyed that I knew more than them. Was I also provocative? You bet your fucking ass I was, but that doesn’t make it any different. If you can’t take a personal offence when you’re a fucking cop, change your job.
You, however, are just another example of the trait I’m talking about. Finnish emotional stuntedness stemming from pathological avoidance. It’s literally built into the language, I don’t blame you for having it, it would require true self-reflection and understanding of other cultures to get over it. You should try it sometimes.