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I'm not nearly so charitable. In my view, inflicting humiliation on the homeless in the name of helping them is depraved. We do not live in a just world. Pre

I'm not nearly so charitable. In my view, inflicting humiliation on the homeless in the name of helping them is depraved. We do not live in a just world. Pretending that success and failure are attributable to merit alone is the the self-serving moral vanity of the fortunate. So what if the homeless "fail at life"? There but for the grace of dog go you.

drb91 8y ago
> We do not live in a just world. Pretending that success and failure are attributable to merit alone is the the self-serving moral vanity of the fortunate. Again, I agree with you. I also think this viewpoint is depressing to the point that people will reject it and invent some fiction to excuse their relative comfort. How it can be empowering—delivering tangibly improved quality of life for the people around you—is hard to tie to the premise that people are fundamentally subjected to their environment before their character. Rhetorically, anyway.