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Apr 5, 2009View in Crawl 4
Looking away or giving money aren't the only two options. You can't always give, but sometimes just acknowledging them as fellow human beings with a nod or a smile has its own meaning.
I don't need to put words in your mouth, I'm just reading between the lines. You implied that all the homeless have done is waste some imaginary opportunity they were supposedly entitled to via the fact they don't live in a third world country. How would you have any idea what circumstances brought any of those homeless fellows to where they are today? Oh wait, that's right.. you can't! My point simply being, people are a product of circumstance and their environment, so you should examine your own fallacies before judging someone else that may have been less fortunate than you in wealth, family, health, or just luck. If you really want to know whats wrong with the world today, maybe you should start by examining yourself.
There's also people that work hard at life and NEVER make it anywhere, or worse they end up in the street doing whatever they can to live because survival is a powerful instinct. All you're doing is enforcing the common stereotype that homeless people have never tried to help themselves, and by giving them money they'll just go buy drugs/alcohol. Its this stigma that keeps homeless people homeless, and starving, and cold. I don't believe in fate or destiny, and you're absolutely right that YOU can change your life, but what you seem to have forgotten is how much help you received by the people in your life to get there.
Closed AccountApr 5, 2009
Looking away or giving money aren't the only two options. You can't always give, but sometimes just acknowledging them as fellow human beings with a nod or a smile has its own meaning.
theanticrust1Apr 6, 2009
I ignore them. Same reason you don't feed the birds, they just get s**t everywhere.
twistxApr 6, 2009
I don't need to put words in your mouth, I'm just reading between the lines. You implied that all the homeless have done is waste some imaginary opportunity they were supposedly entitled to via the fact they don't live in a third world country. How would you have any idea what circumstances brought any of those homeless fellows to where they are today? Oh wait, that's right.. you can't! My point simply being, people are a product of circumstance and their environment, so you should examine your own fallacies before judging someone else that may have been less fortunate than you in wealth, family, health, or just luck. If you really want to know whats wrong with the world today, maybe you should start by examining yourself.
twistxApr 7, 2009
There's also people that work hard at life and NEVER make it anywhere, or worse they end up in the street doing whatever they can to live because survival is a powerful instinct. All you're doing is enforcing the common stereotype that homeless people have never tried to help themselves, and by giving them money they'll just go buy drugs/alcohol. Its this stigma that keeps homeless people homeless, and starving, and cold. I don't believe in fate or destiny, and you're absolutely right that YOU can change your life, but what you seem to have forgotten is how much help you received by the people in your life to get there.
binorgogApr 8, 2009
This film maker, restores for a moment, my faith in humankind.