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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-17-06 06:42 PM
Response to Reply #79
83. That's just ridiculous.
I'm sorry but I gotta respond.

I *am* of the opinion that if you are homeless, starving, without water or sanitation facilities, you are more of a priority than someone who is scraping by. Yes, that is what I think.

I don't think one group of people deserves more than another, but clearly you do. You think you deserve more than these people. If I have more empathy for them than you, it's probably because if an American steals from them they don't claim Americans are thieves publicly to me. Or maybe it's just that I have empathy for everyone who's struggling in this way and don't advocate demonizing groups of people based on their situations and my own selfishness. Maybe it's this crazy feeling I have of empathy that tells me, don't send people back into conditions that will most likely kill them. Maybe that's whats happening with my empathy.

You didn't read what I said, and you just seem pissed off that someone stole from you and you seem to think this makes your position solid, when in fact it's just a broad-brush generalization.
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