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By moylek (registered) - website | Posted April 22, 2010 at 21:10:21

Interesting piece, AnneMariePavlov - I, too, think that a decent world would allow uneducated (or ambitionless or not terribly bright) people to work at physical jobs and make a living wage. I wonder if we aren't making a mistake creating a world based on a narrow, middle-class model of how people should live and work and play (aside from the problem of manufacturing jobs disappearing altogether).

You write "I don’t like this idea that people who live off of public money need to account to the public at all times for their very personal choices." Please note that I never made mention of public money - I only said "poor people". So here's the problem of the shifting-sand definitions and scoring cheap points again.

And as far as judging poor people by what they do and how they eat and how they get sick and die - wasn't making such judgements (about the people and about our society) exactly what the Code Red series was about?

And if I don't make judgements based on how people are living, then how am I to make judgements at all? Or shall I not make judgements? Do I just shut up and pay my taxes and not worry my little head over what happens with my money or whether governments are improving our world with it?

Comment edited by moylek on 2010-04-22 20:16:17

-- Kenneth Moyle Hamilton, Ontario

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