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So you think of every poor person as having a fundamental disability comparable to a medically-diagnosed case of ADHD. This is flatly, verifiably wrong, as wel
by Banthum 9y ago
So you think of every poor person as having a fundamental disability comparable to a medically-diagnosed case of ADHD.
This is flatly, verifiably wrong, as well as reprehensibly paternalistic and self-indulgent.
And all this after I specifically talked about mental illness in my original post.
- Mz 9y agoWe were specifically talking about homeless people, not poor people. I am currently homeless and have had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy. I know whereof I speak here. I don't disagree with some of your assertions that we should treat such people as if they have agency and can make choices. But your framing is incredibly hostile and in the vein of "We don't need to do anything for such people because they made these choices and did this to themselves." No one makes choices in a vacuum and, currently, an awful lot of people have no good choices available to them. Blaming them so you can wash your hands of responsibility is rather ugly behavior. You don't personally have to do anything for someone like me, but posting comments on a forum where you are basically publically advocating that no one should do anything for them -- well, I feel pretty well entitled to rebut that. Feel free to do nothing and feel that my problems are all my fault and I am just not trying hard enough. But if you post that to HN, I can rebut it, and likely will if I see it.