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Originally posted by PurpleXVI:
Ideals are very nice, but sometimes you have to look at reality.
Ideally, everyone gets what they deserve and if someone doesn't do enough to get by: Tough luck, they're just low down on the ladder.
Practically, bad things happen to good people, and when someone ends up not doing well in life, either through their own fault or someone else's: They're not happy about that. It's a fact of human nature, and telling them they deserve where they are aren't going to stop them mugging you, flooding across your borders or becoming extremists.
In theory, I can agree with your ideals, in a perfect world they'd really make everything good. But in the real world they just don't cut it. You have to be willing to compromise with your ideals or you're going to end up striving for something unattainable and ignoring urgent realities.
And yes, hard as it may be to believe, people born in a country can still be badly integrated. If their parents were never properly made part of society, work will need to be done to get the children there.
It's easy to look down on the people without a future and call them lazy when you've got one yourself.
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Speaking from the perspective of someone whose future is what you see now, sitting in a dark room, discussing things I can't control, some of which I wouldn't want to if I could, I think I have a pretty clear idea of what it means to not have a future. I fight tooth and nail to keep what I have, let alone do any of the things that used to make my life fun to live.
Yet I'm not out plotting the overthrow of my government because I have to claw my way through their red tape to get benefits they should have just given me. I don't even bash them overly much for it. I haven't put myself into a car bomb, and blown myself, and half a shopping mall to hell. It's not like I came from a rich, afluent neighborhood either. Considering I spent my 19th through my 25th birthdays in prison. I fight everyday to keep what I have, even though I know it's all I'm ever going to have, because even once I get my benefits, it's not enough to maintain the modest lifestyle I had before I fell ill.
The point being; it doesn't matter where you came from, how you were raised, what happens to you in your life. You can rise above it, if you try.