Well, well, well, I’m guessing you won’t be getting pissed anymore when stereotypes of Always Trumpers start coming up, right? Or is it only OK to stereotype and demean when YOU do it?
Having said that, being capable of empathy and compassion doesn’t mean one has to live in poverty in order to help. Funny how you despise socialism and then come with such a socialist concept. It also doesn’t mean that that person has to single handedly be the solution to a problem. My heart breaks every time I see an abused animal, that doesn’t mean I have to adopt every stray I run into or that I have to deny myself all comfort to save puppies. It also doesn’t mean that I can’t judge animal abusers as despicable and disgusting individuals. Do you feel bad for, let’s say, abused American kids at all? I mean, I’m sure we can agree that those do deserve your compassion, right? So are YOU giving up all your “luxuries” to save all the abused children of America? How many have you adopted?
But I see by your comment why Trump’s tactic of vilifying immigrants has worked so well amongst his followers. It dehumanizes these people and makes them unworthy of any compassion and empathy. Just like Hitler did with Jews.
water<wine wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 4:13 pm
msb64 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:09 pm
"We have developed a heart condition in America and in the American church. Our hearts have become hardened to the hurt in our world.
I’m not saying this to shame but to state what has happened as a result of the constant bombardment of bad news coming at us in images and interviews and analysis 24/7. It hurts too much to feel all the pain in the world and so we have turned off our feelings, shut them down, in order to keep on keeping on."
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm ... OFk92i9iQ0
answer honestly, how much of your money goes to charity? how much could you cut to help others.
think about this- give up all luxuries, downgrade your home, give up your car and walk, go vegetarian, give up all materialism.
you'd save thousands of dollars a year and you could give all of that to people living in severe poverty all over the world. but you wont.
the average bleeding heart lib will not give up their soy milk lattes, avocado toast, blue hair dye, expensive clothes, accessories, homes, cars, cable, Iphones, Mac computers, $100k college educations etc for complete strangers. they will NOT invite desperate strangers into their homes.
hell they wont even give a dollar to the homeless masses in their own cities. so excuse me if this seems like emotional manipulation to me.