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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
but i know how you think. fuck everyone, no one deserves help or any handouts, you just expect people to suck it up. well guess what, that is no going to work no matter how high you hold your nose in the air at these people. its a cultural problem that needs help and understanding to change. not ignorance and apathy.
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I don't think that way at all. It's just what you tell yourself to help convince yourself of the moral superiority of your own one-sided views and so that you can easily dismiss any arguments or facts which might inconveniently challenge them.
I don't know anything about Canadian natives and how or why the government is supporting them. I do know plenty about Alaska natives. I also know this is the year 2014. Not 1700. They aren't trying to live in the forest and subsist on seal meat. They have jobs, homes, cars and flat screen tv's. Though they have that option to live in the forest and follow tradition, they elect not to... and that fact seems to be universal. And though they have every opportunity in the world to take advantage of all the assistance available to them.. it doesn't seem to improve the circumstances of those it's meant to improve.
You rationalize me asking the simple question... which you apparently have no answer for.... "at what point is the individual responsible for their own circumstances" by telling me that my attitude is "Fuck everyone" and stating that i "look down my noses at them".
Makes sense.
