Reply #151: Just because I and others choose [View All]

[hippywife]

not to be disgustingly mean to those who are ill or hurting regardless of who they are, doesn't mean that we are being weak. Many of us are activists in our own right. We choose different tools to address the problems.

You don't need to wish harm and hardship to another human being or group of human beings to be in this battle. It doesn't mean you wish them success, either, and aren't working to see that they don't succeed. It's merely addressing the fact that we are all human and addressing the fact that we each face the spectre of illness.

It does no one any good, particularly one's self, to kick someone when they are down. It only proves that you are no better than that which you profess to despise.