hoosierdoc
Freed prisoner
I thought of a nice analogy today.
Let's consider a hippie free love tree hugger girl working at an animal rescue shelter. Someone watched a raccoon get struck by a car and brought it to her. This raccoon used to be fully capable of supporting itself in the world but was stricken with an injury. The hippie wants the raccoon to get back into the wild and not live in a zoo/cage/die so she nurtures it back to health over six months. But she realizes she can't make the raccoon dependent on her or it will never survive in the wild again, so she is diligent to provide food in a manner that makes it still have to hunt a bit and regain the ability to feed itself. When the animal is ready she releases it to go be a raccoon again.
Now consider how the same hippie girl looks at various minority groups and those in lower socioeconomic classes. She sees them as victims of an unjust system and the only way to help them is to provide total sustenance forever. Any attempt to decrease the support and get them back into the workforce is seen as hateful and cruel. There is no effort to help restore them to independence and let them out of their "cage" to regain their full potential.
A whale washes up on the beach and hundreds come out to help it get back on track. Putting it in sea world is cruel and awful. But put in a human in subsidized housing with free food/healthcare/utilities to likely maintain that status for life and you're the most compassionate person around
Let's consider a hippie free love tree hugger girl working at an animal rescue shelter. Someone watched a raccoon get struck by a car and brought it to her. This raccoon used to be fully capable of supporting itself in the world but was stricken with an injury. The hippie wants the raccoon to get back into the wild and not live in a zoo/cage/die so she nurtures it back to health over six months. But she realizes she can't make the raccoon dependent on her or it will never survive in the wild again, so she is diligent to provide food in a manner that makes it still have to hunt a bit and regain the ability to feed itself. When the animal is ready she releases it to go be a raccoon again.
Now consider how the same hippie girl looks at various minority groups and those in lower socioeconomic classes. She sees them as victims of an unjust system and the only way to help them is to provide total sustenance forever. Any attempt to decrease the support and get them back into the workforce is seen as hateful and cruel. There is no effort to help restore them to independence and let them out of their "cage" to regain their full potential.
A whale washes up on the beach and hundreds come out to help it get back on track. Putting it in sea world is cruel and awful. But put in a human in subsidized housing with free food/healthcare/utilities to likely maintain that status for life and you're the most compassionate person around