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> I bet if you consider it in the light of your personal experience with people, you'll find it has merit. In my experience, all people tend to gossip, like an
by qiskit 5y ago
> I bet if you consider it in the light of your personal experience with people, you'll find it has merit.
In my experience, all people tend to gossip, like ann landers herself. If you disagree, try corporate america or a college campus.
> Welfare in America means free food, free housing, free medical care, and free education.
It means poverty. Section 8 housing and processed junk food mostly. It's better than homelessness and starvation, but far from ideal.
> With loving parents, that's what one needs.
Loving parents generally don't intentionally start their children's lives on welfare.
> I agree that an absent father is deleterious, though.
Certainly not something a good mother would intentionally do to their children.
Life's not perfect but some make it imperfect on purpose. You really have to wonder about people sometimes.
- WalterBright 5y ago> In my experience, all people tend to gossip Here's an anecdote you might find relevant: At Caltech, a good friend of mine lived in an apartment next to campus. He could only cook one dish, chicken wings, and was rightly famous for them. Once a month, he invited all comers for chicken wing night. His poor little apartment would get stuffed with students stuffing themselves. Except for one. A middle-aged man would come in, get some wings, and just sit quietly in a corner. After seeing this a few times, I went over to ask him who he was, and why he was here. After all, he must be bored stiff listening to our prattle. He said he was the apartment manager, and far from bored, he was fascinated to just sit and listen to the conversations. He said he'd never heard anyone talk like that before, nor had he heard anyone talk about the topics we did. And no, the conversations were not about football, drinking, or sex. > far from ideal You've changed the goal posts from "what one needs" to "ideal".