[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Cainehill:
Oh - so someone who works 60 hours a week, takes good care of his family, looks after his friends, and volunteers to help people in his neighborhood find jobs, become literate, etc, is "a social parasite" because they don't care about the billions of people they don't personally know?

Well, since this person clearly cares about people that he doesn't personally know, I'm not sure what your argument is. He obviously helps people he hasn't met before. Or would this person actually not care at all if a few billion people they haven't met yet suddenly died?

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He's not "caring about people he doesn't personally know" - he's helping people, in his neighborhood, whom he does get to know. Perhaps more importantly, he's helping people who are willing to help themselves.

He's _not_ sending money to Gloria Struthers to feed the starving kids in the Philipines, and he doesn't much care about the well being of the trailer park trash single mother with 8 kids.

You don't have to care about the faceless billions in order to not be a "social parasite". Arguably, anyone with a decent productive job (as opposed to CEOs, politicians, ambulance chasers and used car salesmen) is a productive member of society, paying taxes, providing for their family, and not a social parasite. Even if they don't do a damn thing for the homeless, jobless, spineless, etc.