I can't recall how many times I heard this tripe as a JW, especially following a sincere question regarding how people in China or India would have the same chance to hear it as those in the US.
I often wondered how God would account things at Armageddon - would it go something like this?;
" Now as for you, Mitmah and family. You have lived your entire lives in the depths of the Burmese jungles. You never heard of Jehovah's Witnesses, or the internet. Once you heard a family member speak of meeting a strange religious person in Bankok. This person was a only a 'professed Christian' so that was of no value. You once saw a Bible, but since you don't read, and none of Jw's were there to teach you the New Language of Purity, you had no idea what it contained. It doesn't matter what the Bible says anyway, Mitmah. I shall not judge you based on the Bible, nor on the fact that you are a hero to your villiage, once saving 9 children from a flaming inferno. Your acts of goodness in the village are of no concern here. You did not get married in a Kingdom Hall, that is one strike against you. You enjoyed, shall we say, pleasures of an oral sort with your seven wives. Strike two. But this is the biggie - you once saw a Watchtower in the community outhouse. It was a 1956 version, but it contained the 'truth' if you wanted to mine it out of there. All you needed do, was learn to read in the language it was printed, find Jehovah's Witnesses, and there have been at times upwards of 7 of them here in your nation, travel the 700 miles weekly to attend the meetings once they taught you the 'Truth', get baptized, and preach alongside them.'
"Your failure to hunt down this odd sect of people of whom you had never heard is no excuse. Now please, stand over there, so that I may smite you and you and your family shall all die for this sin. Strike three. Oh, by the way, that is a baseball terminology. If only you had been born in the US, where I headquartered my 'Name people', you would also have known that idiom. And you would have heard the 'Good News' they preach there hudndreds of times, until your ears would bleed. Don't worry, many of those people will die this day too for failure to listen to my magazine salesforce."
"Just be glad I am a loving God. There is no hellfire, and you have no immortal soul. So my killing you is not that bad. Your actions have been bad - you worshipped other Gods, and my people didn't bother to come around here. Your fault. Drink the koolaid, Mitmah. "
Oh wait - I see new light over Brooklyn. Maybe I have changed my mind. Hold on just a minute while I go read the new secret version of the Watchtower - hold that pose -..... I'll be right back after I speak with Teddy."
Jeff