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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by pigglet
as far as the side discussion with cyn and will, i'll save the homeless for another thread, but as far as legal immigrants looking down on illegal immigrants, i would tend to think that would also be something that would need to be evaluated on individual merit, no? i mean, i can understand where you're coming from cyn, but shit it seems like you've just got a dried up compassion well. on some of these issues it seems you seem to implicitly take the position that your shit doesn't stink. i know you state that you know it does, but i think you're assuming that all people who illegally have migrated here have been in the same situation that your family was; both in terms of living situation as well as proximity to the states or other large industrialized nation. am i missing something? that just seems rather 1-dimensional on these types of political discussions.
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This may seem one dimensional but this is a simplistic view for me. I'm not speaking of this from anything but personal experience and reiterating my feelings on that. If you look at all my posts, there is only one time that I've addressed anything to engage in a solution or discuss this differently than how I feel about the issue.
I guess when you stand on line for something and multiple people cut in front of you, it's fine for you. They shouldn't have to wait, they don't need to wait, it's fair for you to have prepared, gotten there early to secure your place in line you abided by the rules established and followed them and they didn't. It doesn't upset you in the least?
I cannot speak for anyone else and how they feel about their family emigrating to the US. I know people who were refugees, people who sought political asylum, poor, rich, connected, but they all followed the processes established to secure being here.
Now the implication that "my shit don't stink" is unjustified. The difference is that I accept responsibility for the indiscretions and transgressions commited that are either against another person, government, animal, thing. I do not excuse the idea that "because they have it hard" or any other kind of mitigating excuse. You may call it a dried up compassion well, but I believe I have enough compassion without having to be either a person who tramples over everyone else or gets trampled over. I am a firm believer of don't do the crime if you can't do the time. If you do something right or wrong, be ready for the consequences good or bad that come from that action.
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