A Boring Dystopia

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Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2 to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's because people have strange hang ups about how "a victim" is supposed to be, I think. That is why many people who start helping drug addicts and the homeless are often disillusioned at first, when they find out that many of these people can be quite the assholes.

The same goes for those who are rather at the short end of the stick themselves and actually have to live in poor neighborhoods. It's easier to be virtue signalling about how you supposedly care for poor people than actually living with them.

People need to separate "being good" from deserving help. That would make a lot of problems much easier to work on.