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@secularmerlin
If it were a community of people possessing mental frailty and illness, I would simply remark upon it with no criticism,Ok what about a community socially/economically disadvantaged people?
If Diagnosis could be a philosopher, If the Rome could grow to a nation from a single city, If Japan could equal the West and decimate the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War.
I'd hold out hope for a socially and economically disadvantaged people.
I think individuals and groups should have a sense of responsibility for how they confront existence, no matter what it is.Yes but not for how existence confronts them.
Yes, it 'would be bizarre, quite recognized as unjust of me to say that the Okies during the Dust Bowl deserved their fates, or that people laid off during Depressions deserved their fates, that someone sexually assaulted deserved their fate, or that victims of the Holocaust deserved their fate.
Be horrible to say, and perhaps what I've already said is horrible.
. . .
But I like Ego, I like Narcissism, I like Pride, Self Worth.
I like the idea of my fate being in my own hands. . . And so I focus on such an idea, I grow fond of philosophies which espouse it. I enjoy writing crude poetry regarding it. I like looking at my life that way.
I've had a far better life than most, though it's still not all I would like, and I've had parts I've hated or feel shame in.
So I can hardly soapbox this as though I'm an authority, or 'know anything.
But still I have opinions.
And I like talking, now and then.
Though I did not care for his interpretation, finding his words unduly harsh, and lacking an understanding that some people do not possess the capability to respond to certain circumstance or that certain circumstance can overwhelm.I can relate to that feeling right now.
What's happening in life with you?