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StephenBuckley  ·  4412 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hypothetical for the day

This would be hard to answer if it was actually happening to me. To answer it from the safe distance of a life with constant internet access, where I eat as I please and no one I know has been to jail for any serious time? Impossible.

I wasn't born privileged- I've been starving because my family couldn't afford food, and we've been weeks or days away from being homeless at times. My father kept it together (somehow), but if he didn't this question could have become very real for me. But even at the hungriest, even with the landlord calling every day, even when we got $12 christmas presents even though it's also my birthday- even then, this would have been a hard question to answer.

I think, in all honesty, that if it would help myself and my brother out of that situation, I would do it. But if it was just me, I would die hoping.





joelg236  ·  4412 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I find this answer sincerely interesting. It's the other people that you care about who you could justify doing morally wrong things for. Obviously it's said a lot, but still, very very interesting. We must be more motivated by love and compassion than I might have thought.