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Yeah its deeply hypocritical in many ways. I just don't understand how it's so hard for so many to just be good to each other, to take care of each other. There
by hestipod 7y ago
Yeah its deeply hypocritical in many ways. I just don't understand how it's so hard for so many to just be good to each other, to take care of each other. There is too much angry, tribal nonsense and way too much opposition to humane and decent things like robust social systems and equal rights. There is a strange "nobody should get anything I don't think they deserve" mentality that supercedes the "nobody should suffer needlessly" mentality I think matters more.
- hirundo 7y ago> ... I simply cannot understand If my parents had supported me indefinitely it would have extended my dependence and delayed my adulthood indefinitely. This is a moral hazard of too much welfare. You can agree that this hazard exists and still disagree about its relative danger and threshold. Your rural neighbors aren't moral monsters, they just have different risk assessments. I think a lot of that is due to a more independent rural childhood from an earlier age. It creates a greater appreciation for antifragility. A kid released into the wild at age 6 has a different estimate of their own capacity than one supervised until 12. They project that estimate onto everyone else.
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