For clarity, if you want me to pass your purity test by telling you that Xenophobia makes about as much sense as stapling your genitals to a 2x4 and swinging said 2x4 at a hornet’s nest, since we’re ALL GOD DAMN HUMAN BEINGS THAT DESERVE RESPECT AND HELP WHEN NEEDED EVEN IF THEY ARE SHITTY.
Wow, crystal clear logic you’ve got there. You struggle to even formulate a basic argument and yet you have the gall to accuse me of purity testing?
If you don’t see how xenophobia connects to the exclusion of outsiders in smalltown, usa, then it’s honestly hopeless to try explaining to you.
Why would your first assumption be that I’m excluding everybody that doesn’t fit into the niche?
I’m not assuming that about you. I’m telling you that this kind of thing happens. And you continue to act like it doesn’t by pretending it’s so audacious of me to point it out.
So you’re assuming that I’m saying people that can’t pay through any means don’t deserve help? You REALLY think that about a stranger you know nothing about.
Have you heard of the concept of goodwill? Of helping someone out for the entirely selfish reason of ‘helping people feels good and it makes me feel good’?
That’s not AT ALL what I’m saying, and you’re twisting my words around on their head so hard that I almost think it has to be disingenuous.
Literally my whole point is that those people DO deserve help, but that in this system where people depend on the goodwill of others, some people will be excluded because in many cases people’s goodwill is either lacking, incomplete, or exclusionary.
The examples you list have no bearing on it because I’m NOT SAYING that nobody has goodwill or does things for altruistic reasons. What I’m saying is that relying on that alone as a society to get everyone the help that they need IS NOT ENOUGH, because too many people LACK THAT GOODWILL.
If you think those rescue efforts have nearly as much support and funding as they need, then you must not have ever been involved in anything of the kind, because almost always they have to do more with less. They could certainly always use more volunteers, more donations, but as I stated before THIS ALONE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, because GOODWILL IS NOT AS COMMON AS YOU PRESUME.
All of those efforts would be much better served by state-sponsored IGOs and NGOs that can do high-level coordination and collect and distribute the vast resources needed to bring these rescue efforts and reconstruction projects to completion. And instead of relying SOLELY on volunteers and hoping enough people care enough to make those sacrifices, instead there should be government-sponsored workforces whose entire jobs, training, and expertise revolves around providing the necessary labor. Because even though volunteering is great, it’s simply NOT ENOUGH.
Wow, crystal clear logic you’ve got there. You struggle to even formulate a basic argument and yet you have the gall to accuse me of purity testing?
If you don’t see how xenophobia connects to the exclusion of outsiders in smalltown, usa, then it’s honestly hopeless to try explaining to you.
I’m not assuming that about you. I’m telling you that this kind of thing happens. And you continue to act like it doesn’t by pretending it’s so audacious of me to point it out.
That’s not AT ALL what I’m saying, and you’re twisting my words around on their head so hard that I almost think it has to be disingenuous.
Literally my whole point is that those people DO deserve help, but that in this system where people depend on the goodwill of others, some people will be excluded because in many cases people’s goodwill is either lacking, incomplete, or exclusionary.
The examples you list have no bearing on it because I’m NOT SAYING that nobody has goodwill or does things for altruistic reasons. What I’m saying is that relying on that alone as a society to get everyone the help that they need IS NOT ENOUGH, because too many people LACK THAT GOODWILL.
If you think those rescue efforts have nearly as much support and funding as they need, then you must not have ever been involved in anything of the kind, because almost always they have to do more with less. They could certainly always use more volunteers, more donations, but as I stated before THIS ALONE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, because GOODWILL IS NOT AS COMMON AS YOU PRESUME.
All of those efforts would be much better served by state-sponsored IGOs and NGOs that can do high-level coordination and collect and distribute the vast resources needed to bring these rescue efforts and reconstruction projects to completion. And instead of relying SOLELY on volunteers and hoping enough people care enough to make those sacrifices, instead there should be government-sponsored workforces whose entire jobs, training, and expertise revolves around providing the necessary labor. Because even though volunteering is great, it’s simply NOT ENOUGH.
How much clearer can I make that for you?