In my experience, those who 'have' tend to blame those who haven't
for such things as high taxes, branding them all as welfare cheats.
Blame can travel in many directions, usually without regard to the
facts.
But as a friend of mine says, we should be grateful to the
'unemployed by choice' for getting out of our bloody way. We should
be grateful to smokers for voluntarily laying down their lives before
they can take advantage of age benefits. We should be grateful to the
poor for not using up the earth's resources at the same rate as the
rest of us. We should be grateful to the religious for keeping God
tolerant for us.
Just thought I'd inject a third view into it - and he does really
believe in a culture of gratitude rather than blame, even if in a
rather off the wall manner.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 25/02/2007, at 4:25 PM, NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
> You will find no argument from me about taking care of those who
> can't fend
> for themselves. Where we will likely differ in opinion is when the
> line
> between "can't" and "won't" get confused. We likely will also
> differ when the
> line between "reasons" and "excuses" gets a little blurred. When
> one finds
> another to blame for their circumstance and uses that as an reason/
> excuse to
> not do for themselves, they have IMHO reach a very sad place in
> life. The
> answer to changing their circumstance is not external to themself.
> Unfortunately, too many don't understand that.
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