Reply #52: Choice? [View All]

[undergroundpanther]

I would choose to not be poor.
Not be messed up and disabled.
To not suffer so much shit.
To be happy.


I have none of these. Happiness comes in short bursts and even than it is not enough to help me out of the grinding stress pstd and depression that life, for me is and has been.
Grow some empathy instead of yammering about choice from afar .Can you tell an act made in desperation,from a free willed"choice"?How about responding to a threat from a free willed choice? Until you get that choices are not always freely made, you are blowing hot air out of your ass,and sound like ayn rand a cultist, egotistical hypocrite from hell.


Please get out of your little self comforting beliefs you spout about poor people.And get to know some of us.. Sometimes the responsibilities of making more money is too much stress for a person and could leave them worse off emotionally. So are they are poor by choice? No they seek sanity and would much rather not get so stressed out over life VS a tiny raise in cash in exchange for too much stress.Does this mean a person chooses poverty? NO! It means they can't cope with more stress.

But I don't expect you to get all the subtleties of various situations poor people might face like that...with the crappy level of empathy you demonstrate with your "poverty is a choice" rhetoric.
Reality is a fucking cruel and capricious thing and misfortune can even make the well off, suddenly poor..