‘I cannot believe, today, that the world almost ignored those people and what was happening. How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? They do not owe us anything. We owe them, for what we allowed to happen to them.’ – Carrol Walsh, Liberator
I struggle to not think the same problem is still happening today in society.
The less privilege people by fate become depressed to the point of suicide and society doesn't have the resources to fix them because people don't care. These people will typically be abandoned by their friends or family and because who wants them in their life? God obviously never liked the sick anyway.
Another similar class of people are the ones who end up in prison. Once again fate of being less privileged and when it comes to the necessary variables to not have the bad events occur.
I've read enough on neuro science, determinism and don't believe these misfortunate had any real choice in how their life transpired. People don't want to acknowledge what has already been known hundreds of years ago. The philosophy of determinism and how we're all just products of our birth with every event factoring from the preceding. I hope some day people can acknowledge it and we move forward & towards a modal that doesn't accept everything as punishment & ostracizing towards ignoring the ugliness of reality.
Yes, this perspective is so often missed. Your comment reminded me of a book that just came out, Dignity: Seeing Respect in Back Row America. It’s a compassionate panorama of lower-class America.
“The people he got to know, from Alabama and California to Maine and Nevada, gave Arnade a new respect for the dignity and resilience of what he calls America's Back Row--those who lack the credentials and advantages of the so-called meritocratic upper class. The strivers in the Front Row, with their advanced degrees and upward mobility, see the Back Row's values as worthless. They scorn anyone who stays in a dying town or city as foolish, and mock anyone who clings to religion or tradition as naïve.”
I wonder if anyone here has been in a refugee camp for a modern war - perhaps, with victims from violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya .. I mean, these refugee camps are the modern equivalent of the trains in Germany.
The same violent crimes are still happening today in society.
Indeed. The Nazi extermination was remarkable for its structuredness, but genocide and people being forced from their homes by conflict is an ongoing problem. And people are being punished for intervening on the side of the refugees.
I struggle to not think the same problem is still happening today in society.
The less privilege people by fate become depressed to the point of suicide and society doesn't have the resources to fix them because people don't care. These people will typically be abandoned by their friends or family and because who wants them in their life? God obviously never liked the sick anyway.
Another similar class of people are the ones who end up in prison. Once again fate of being less privileged and when it comes to the necessary variables to not have the bad events occur.
I've read enough on neuro science, determinism and don't believe these misfortunate had any real choice in how their life transpired. People don't want to acknowledge what has already been known hundreds of years ago. The philosophy of determinism and how we're all just products of our birth with every event factoring from the preceding. I hope some day people can acknowledge it and we move forward & towards a modal that doesn't accept everything as punishment & ostracizing towards ignoring the ugliness of reality.