Reply #3: This is a topic which I've mulled over a lot [View All]

[Ladyhawk]

because I am poor. I was raised in a right-wing xtian home that taught, "If ye do no work, then ye shall not eat." Well, I ended up with Depression (which fundies don't consider a real disease), OCD, PTSD, diabetes, degenerative disc disease, etc., so I am not a contributing member of society.

So, if I'm not a contributing member of society, why the hell am I here? I wonder myself, sometimes.

How should the poor die? might be a more interesting question if you're into social darwinism.

On the heart level, I deplore social darwinism, but I look at nature and see no pity for the sick or the weak. Last November I saw an Orca snack on a yearling sea lion. The sea lion died partly because it was in the wrong place at the wrong time and partly because it was uneducated. Nature is simultaneously brutal and beautiful. Chimps and wolves take care of their sick...do they make them feel worthless, too?

I feel worthless. Why am I here, absorbing your tax dollars and giving nothing back?