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It's sickening to me that most US citizens seem to prefer watching people die on the street than give them things they "do not deserve".
by Fauntleroy 9y ago
It's sickening to me that most US citizens seem to prefer watching people die on the street than give them things they "do not deserve".
- User23 9y agoI have good news for you. US citizens don't actually like watching people die on the street, not even the ones on the right.
- geogra4 9y agoRight, they close their doors and avert their gaze
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoThat's very easy to say on your very comfortable chair.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoArguments on both sides here are about what people "like to do" - with hyperbole in both directions. But the fundamental problem is with what people actually do - and given the scale of the problem, and apparent lack of solution, it doesn't seem unfair to say that not enough is being done. Quite a large chunk of the non-homeless population in the US is living in a relatively precarious situation[1], which leaves them both practically unable to help and presumably also afraid of ending up on the street themselves. Hence it's not unreasonable to expect the response to come from governments, like Utah's did. 1: https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-one-paycheck-away-from-the-street-2015-01-07 https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-one-...
- geogra4 9y agobourgeois ideology is contagious, sadly.
- dredmorbius 9y agoAnd why?
- sliverstorm 9y agoWell, it is important to avoid creating a culture of dependence. We've seen how that can backfire on us in Africa. So it's not totally irrational.
- nnfy 9y agoMaybe some of us prefer not deincentivizing work and creating an even larger subpopulation which is entirely dependent on government and won't be employable for generations? We live in a reality where resources still require effort and capital to extract from the environment. A society can only support so many through welfare before it collapses. The subject is a little more nuanced than watching people die out of some kind of jealousy.
- Boothroid 9y agoAnd an economy can only be so rapacious of honest hard-working citizens before it collapses.