Posted by alexandra_k on October 26, 2004, at 1:27:28
In reply to Re: Skittles' comment, posted by Peddidle on October 26, 2004, at 0:56:43
> Ok, fine, I can't really disagree with that. However, I think that you should be aware of your surroundings, so to speak, and realize that you may be offending some people. Just because someone is "rich" doesn't make them a bad person.
Whoo - I never said "rich" people were bad people, and I never would. I do realise that the "self-indulgent" and "luxury" comments were likely to cause offence, and I apologised for that. But I never said the bad person stuff.What I was thinking is that all of us (me included) don't seem to realise how lucky we are. In the sense of money. Financial security. Sure students are poor - but tuition gets paid, living expenses get met, someone covers the insurance. We get our high-speed internet connection.
I am amazingly rich now by the standards I was raised by (and I am a "poor student" too). We don't get the slums you guys get in the States - but I was raised the equivalent of white trailor trash in this lovely welfare country.
From that perspective "needs" and "luxuries" are surely different. Even food is relative - you can go without for a few days, you don't starve to death, hence it is not a "need". But it is not enough of a luxury so as to condemn the man who steals it. Not in my book anyway. How many starving children could we save with the money we feed to psychotherapy (which has not been measured for effectiveness)?
Relative.
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