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You wouldn't if you had compassion. Holding compassion and objectivity in your head simultaneously would enable you to both help the person and acknowledge that
by shas3 10y ago
You wouldn't if you had compassion. Holding compassion and objectivity in your head simultaneously would enable you to both help the person and acknowledge that the person may have made poor choices and decisions to get them to where they are. If you ignore that people make poor choices, you are doing a disservice to the poor, since you won't then be able to address this cause/aspect of poverty.
- grasshopperpurp 10y agoWhat about people with mental health issues? Why are Republicans always in favor of cutting mental-health programs? Oh, that's right. It's because they really don't care at all about poor people. And, only schmucks believe that they're ever being earnest when they present their boot-strap, trickle-down bullshit.
- M_Grey 10y agoPlus, there's money in prisons, not so much in complicated home-care, lifelong mental health support, and even housing. A person who's desperately ill, earns your cronies supplying the prison with soap and "food" money. A person who hears voices can still stamp out license plates and make a buck for the state or the company. We're slavers who've just put some steps in between the misery and ourselves, while making sure the slaves are also all "bad people". Treating them like just... people... even only a percentage of them, would destroy the system and its profits. (Not to mention power, control, and political power)