I had a conversation with a friend once who was bemoaning street kids feigning physical disabilities to increase the likelihood of getting bucks through begging because he said it was dishonest. I battled to articulate why his perspective made me so angry but it has something to do with what Tirado expressed in her initial blog - if youre living and begging on the street, then why the heck wouldnt you do whatever it takes to increase your success rate? Isnt honesty in a situation such as that the preserve of the privileged few? And as to poor people wasting their money on smoking. Hey, dont we all grab pleasures where we can? I guess my forms of pleasure (e.g. drinking expensive red wine while slothing in front of DSTV) are just not that readily available to someone holding down a minimum wage job or sitting unemployed in a leaking jondolo.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:46:36 +0000
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