Although I'm not huge on actually caring what people on Facebook do, I did have one official "defriending" that made me wonder if we were actually even halfway human in the twenty first century.
When in a conversation, we were discussing poverty and our city and our school, and the individual simply became offended by my personal belief that not all who are poor are lazy. Because I wouldn't agree that every person who is poor is lazy, he just said our viewpoints didn't go together anymore and wished me well.
I'm not sure why we ignore the fact that all poverty is not the direct result of laziness. Perhaps that would leave too much to be done on our behalf...give us too much responsibility. Maybe we would feel jarred to action a bit too violently. And I guess, that would be a shame.
No comments:
Post a Comment