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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Yep, you go to work in your car protected by metal and glass listening to your morning radio show or your MP3s. I'm sorry 16 years of being hit up for money each and every place I go to, sorry. No. No sympathy, no empathy, I've hung out with homeless and street urchins, you know as well as I do that people are there mostly because they want to.
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Yes, when they're young and their teacher asks them what they want to be when they grow up, they scratch their little heads and proudly proclaim: "I want to be a vagrant! I want to sleep in a cardboard box and eat trash and desperately beg people for help! I want to live in front of a McDonald's and crap behind a McDonald's because I don't have the means for basic human needs like food and shelter! I hope someday people will look down on me as less than human!!" Then they go eat clay.
That you could, with a straight face, say that homeless people WANT to be homeless means that not only do you not know the first thing about the homeless, but your ability to read people is pretty messed up.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
People look down upon other people paid or unpaid. It doesn't matter. Does the rich altruistic person do more good who writes a check for $10,000 to a charity or is it the person serving soup at the kitchen?
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I look down on people, too. I look down on people who don't put any work into figuring things out and sit their on their soap box assuming they know everything. You're satisfied to ignore the plight of the homeless, but you sure are ready and waiting to judge them, aren't you? Well, I now judge you. I say that you're wrong for ignoring the homeless, but that's forgivable because not everyone cares about suffering. I say that you're very, very wrong for making the assumption that they want to be homeless (wtf?!), and that's not forgivable. Ban me if you want, but I think that misrepresenting the less fortunate like that is pretty horrible of you.