Originally posted by Rockydonovang
Sure, you have a choice, but that doesn't change that we could lower the likelihood of you making the wrong choice(and hurting society in the process) by making the environment you're raised in better.
And that's all well and good, you still have a choice. At the end of the day, your choices are on you. Yes or no do you agree?
My parents were immigrants from Haiti. They realized they had a choice to make. Stay in the ghetto and raise us once we come here, or work their asses off so we'll never know what a ghetto was until we grew up.
Guess what their decisions were?
My dad worked two jobs while forcing himself to go to night school to learn English. My mom worked as a waitress at an Haitian restaurant and took care of the house. After my Dad learn English,found a better job, my mom worked part time then, night school. Saved enough money, then brought my little sister and i here.
So, don't give me this bullshit about living in the ghetto because you're force to, as if you're choices and decisions plays no impact.
Originally posted by SquallX
My parents were immigrants from Haiti. They realized they had a choice to make. Stay in the ghetto and raise us once we come here, or work their asses off so we'll never know what a ghetto was until we grew up.Guess what their decisions were?
My dad worked two jobs while forcing himself to go to night school to learn English. My mom worked as a waitress at an Haitian restaurant and took care of the house. After my Dad learn English,found a better job, my mom worked part time then, night school. Saved enough money, then brought my little sister and i here.
So, don't give me this bullshit about living in the ghetto because you're force to, as if you're choices and decisions plays no impact.
That's a beautiful story. You have damn good parents.
Very had work, when aimed in the right direction, is always a good thing.
Originally posted by SquallX
My parents were immigrants from Haiti. They realized they had a choice to make. Stay in the ghetto and raise us once we come here, or work their asses off so we'll never know what a ghetto was until we grew up.Guess what their decisions were?
My dad worked two jobs while forcing himself to go to night school to learn English. My mom worked as a waitress at an Haitian restaurant and took care of the house. After my Dad learn English,found a better job, my mom worked part time then, night school. Saved enough money, then brought my little sister and i here.
So, don't give me this bullshit about living in the ghetto because you're force to, as if you're choices and decisions plays no impact.
k, now what about single parents? they should just work their asses off twice as much, right?
That story was rather touching, like the picture perfect story of immigrants coming over and achieving the American dream. I legitimately applaud Squallx's parents. Bravo 👆
Side note: If Surtur had his way, his parents wouldn't have been allowed cos we can't risk it
Side note: It's too bad Squallx doesn't have the same compassion for immigrants now, considering the story of his family
Originally posted by Surtur
Good. You recognize that, while there can be outside factors, ultimate the choices you make are your own and society is not to blame, your neighborhood is not to blame, you are to blame.Nice 👆
Originally posted by Rockydonovang
Uh, no. I don't think society is free of blame. And I don't think society not being free of blame and taking responsibility for your decisions are mutually exclusive concepts.
Okay Rocky, when I said not to blame I didn't mean 100% free of blame. I just meant it's not carrying the majority of that blame.
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
k, now what about single parents? they should just work their asses off twice as much, right?
Are you a 1st generation immigrant, a single mom, uneducated.......
No, then obviously folks with triple strikes are going to have to work harder, what do you think will happen, life will be better no matter what.
Social darwinism no matter lifes circumstances will always rear its ugly head.
Or did you expect everything in life was going to be equal at birth?
k, so punish the children of single parents because they planned poorly. got it 👆
2 hardworking immigrant parents, probably pulled off 80 hours a week each, so single mom should work 160 hours a week, which leaves over an hour per day for sleep. simple. don't like it? shoulda planned ahead. *demonic laughter*
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
k, so punish the children of single parents because they planned poorly. got it 👆2 hardworking immigrant parents, probably pulled off 80 hours a week each, so single mom should work 160 hours a week, which leaves over an hour per day for sleep. simple. don't like it? shoulda planned ahead. *demonic laughter*
Originally posted by Steve Zodiac
I read the threads and the underlying, message is... someone bad is doing something. I'm scared, we must punish them to protect ourselves but I'm scared, I need the Government to do it.I live in the middle east, I have a war going on below me, a war going on above me. When I lived in Egypt I was caught in one bomb blast and another one went off on the wall behind where I worked.
When I lived in Nigeria, I was almost kidnapped at Gunpoint, and I was shot at on holiday in Meroe in the Sudan.
For all that my brother was at Canary Wharf in London 30 mins before the Explosion, shit happens anywhere.
Don't be scared, my fearful friends, see the world and realise the thing you have to fear most is leaders and people in authority, be they religious or political and the people who follow them.
Don't be pussies.
Originally posted by Steve Zodiac
Thanks mate, to be honest I go to these places for the money, 2 divorces later what can I do. Life's a choice, not much scares me now frankly. Ha!
Originally posted by Raisen
we should stop encouraging women to have children out of wedlock. that would help alsowe encourage unhealthy body weight and single motherhood. it's dangerous
That's also on the men to ensure that, too. The men are 50% of getting people to have babies in a marriage.
Also, I agree with your points no matter how outdated they seem. "research shows" bla bla bla
Mom. Dad. Raising children together provides the best possible outcome for children.
Originally posted by snowdragon
Yeah totally unfair, how would you fix it?
ah the old tried and true "sure your point that i tried to casually dismiss was in fact valid, but now i will challenge you to pull a solution out of your ass or your point becomes moot", or am i mistaken?
section 8 housing helps so i think they should expand that.