There really are some sick people in the world
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Understandable what you're both saying, but tell me, other than croak about this on a forum, what exactly have you contributed to stop people living below the poverty line?
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Don't see why they should have to? I'm sure they're concentrating on keeping themselves above it, too.
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It seems like every new day brings a new kind of low. This reminds me a little of the midlands news story about the syringe stabbings that happened on Broad St, Birmingham.
As you think it can't get any worse, a low life with no moral values or appreciation of the value of life actually does.
As you think it can't get any worse, a low life with no moral values or appreciation of the value of life actually does.
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There is stuff like this posted online all the time. I'm fairly sure most of it is fake.
I was about 6 playing in our park which was situated on an Army Barracks in Northern Ireland, so the area was restricted from the local kids due to the situation then.
Was with my dad happily climbing up the wooden steps on all fours to get to the slide and I put my hand onto some small bits of broken glass. Cut deep into my hand and nicked a vein, lots of blood and my screaming.
My dad rushed me to the medical centre and they sorted it out, he went back down to clear up the blood and get rid of the glass, what he found was tiny bits of glass on every step placed into the cracks between the steps all over the park. Some horrible person had done this deliberately, and as this was the little park only small children used it!
The RMP came out and got it closed off until they could get it all cleaned away etc - not sure if they ever caught the person responsible, probably not as it was a very transient barracks during a very difficult time.
Sickens me now to think that someone would be that callous and mean towards children.
Was with my dad happily climbing up the wooden steps on all fours to get to the slide and I put my hand onto some small bits of broken glass. Cut deep into my hand and nicked a vein, lots of blood and my screaming.
My dad rushed me to the medical centre and they sorted it out, he went back down to clear up the blood and get rid of the glass, what he found was tiny bits of glass on every step placed into the cracks between the steps all over the park. Some horrible person had done this deliberately, and as this was the little park only small children used it!
The RMP came out and got it closed off until they could get it all cleaned away etc - not sure if they ever caught the person responsible, probably not as it was a very transient barracks during a very difficult time.
Sickens me now to think that someone would be that callous and mean towards children.
Support political changes which would benefit those on the poverty line & donate time (over £1k raised on a thread in this very forum) & money to a number of local charities aimed at homelessness & extreme poverty (usually Shelter).
Not that it it's a prerequisite to criticise those who support changes which further exasperate social problems at he bottom of society (all one would need to do that is simply not support changes which make the matter worse, like pretty much I said in the last post).
If extreme poverty had in theory a 5% chance of causing social disillusion, empathic stunting & a myriad of social behavioural disorders - knowing this does it really make ignoring the situation a tenable position? (if the person in question wanted to reduce the social behaviours).
We can agree/disagree on the finer points of free will on the fault of the people who did it - but let's take it a step back & examine why they did it at least, let's determine the causal factors which underline the behaviour we wish to prevent.
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Because they're nob'eds! 
I do see what you're saying. But it seems to be excusing that 5% - they were just statistically likely to turn out like that. It's not by random chance that they are the 5% whose reaction is to behave like that - it's their own decisions. Would having money suddenly turn them into humanitarians? I suspect not. And for that matter:
We have no evidence to suggest that the behaviour discussed in this thread was actually done by someone in poverty.
There are plenty of examples of people in comfort or even wealth displaying sociopathic behaviour.
The more I think about it, the more 'below the poverty line' as some kind of excuse for this turns into a red herring. I think it's an entirely different discussion.
I do see what you're saying. But it seems to be excusing that 5% - they were just statistically likely to turn out like that. It's not by random chance that they are the 5% whose reaction is to behave like that - it's their own decisions. Would having money suddenly turn them into humanitarians? I suspect not. And for that matter:
We have no evidence to suggest that the behaviour discussed in this thread was actually done by someone in poverty.
There are plenty of examples of people in comfort or even wealth displaying sociopathic behaviour.
The more I think about it, the more 'below the poverty line' as some kind of excuse for this turns into a red herring. I think it's an entirely different discussion.