Quote:
Originally Posted by Ethersync
Why is this any different than laughing at "FAIL" pics of botched robberies? They do it for money too.
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The Difference:
If you are a U.S. Citizen with full U.S. Citizen rights and opportunities and you resort to robbing a 7/11, you have effectively
squandered your citizenship and everything the U.S. affords you. You deserve to be mocked for your stupidity. There are an untold number of people in this world that would gladly cut off their own leg to have those opportunities.
The people in these photos have
nothing. No U.S. Citizenship rights, no U.S. opportunities (legal ones), and no future other than abject poverty and starvation or if they're lucky, a chance to "go for it". When you're willing to stuff yourself into an engine compartment and risk death with nothing more than the clothes on your back, it's about survival, not scoring another dose of crack. They haven't squandered their citizenship and opportunities or taken everything we have for granted, because they never had it. They probably would make better "citizens" than many of our
legal citizens.
One is a U.S. Citizen that doesn't want to work, and is making our country a "shit hole". (and you are paying to house and feed him now for as long as his sentence is).
The other is a Non-U.S. Citizen that wants to work and died trying.
Neither are laughing matters.