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When I was in elementary school class one day I tipped my chair backward far enough that the kid behind me thought I'd tip over, so he put his foot gently again
by hirundo 5y ago
When I was in elementary school class one day I tipped my chair backward far enough that the kid behind me thought I'd tip over, so he put his foot gently against the bottom of one leg to prop me up. I didn't feel it, and so relied on it to tip back even further.
Then the kid had to stand up, and withdrew his foot, without malice. I flopped over backward and rung my bell pretty good on the floor. I don't think that would have happened if that kid hadn't propped me up.
I can't blame the kid who tried to help. It was my own damn fault.
Charity can do a lot of good, but not necessarily. And even when it does there is no obligation to continue it forever.
- AlexandrB 5y agoI don't get the how this anti-charity morality tale is relevant. It seems as though the tenants were paying rent, not living off charity: > But, to the tenants who lived there, it was just about the last place in the city where a disability check still covered rent. The real problem seems to be that there was nowhere else they could go where rent was similarly affordable.
- jjoonathan 5y agoI'm sure they would all have lifted themselves up by the bootstraps just fine if they had been priced out of the housing market a few years earlier. /s