Maybe I'm old fashioned. In my opinion people who prey on others who are desperate looking for food/job, and who prey on elderly/kids/disabled, are the lowest scum.

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cowlevel 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

It no longer works that way. Scumminess is now directly defined by how much money you don't have. The more money you have, the less scummy you are.

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ares623 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

As a parent of two young boys, I am seriously confused in what values I should teach them. I am defaulting to traditionally "good" values because that's how I was raised and all I know. But there's a part of me that feels my kids will be at a disadvantage when they grow up, if they carry my values.

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jareklupinski 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

religion used to promise a heaven for those who did good, and hell for those who do evil

life taught me that living well grants you admission to heaven here while you're alive, while committing things society still considers sin makes you live through hell right here on earth

cant imagine how much better/worse it gets if theres more after death

	▲	ares623 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		nah even ignoring religion, there was this story of if you work hard study hard listen to your parents and your teachers and people of authority you will generally wind up more-or-less okay (not rich! just _okay_, and that's okay).

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to11mtm 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

This does crack me up though...

I've got a friend, who is on SSDI due to mental and physical health issues. And yes, they are real. I've known this friend for 20 years, they are a good person, but they have serious challenges integrating into society between past trauma and the MH/PH problems.

Her sister often 'borrows'[0] from her food stamps or SSDI income to pay for her own shit. Her sister's husband gets a new car every 1-2 years, charges his wife (the sister) and their daughter rent every month, and votes in a specific way because 'people are scamming away our tax dollars'.

IOW, "You're right but it's curious to look at the people who think that and how they pose"

[0] - Often without properly repaying

	▲	CoastalCoder 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Please report this to the attorney general. The money for those payments is taken from me, from all taxpayers, under threat of violence from the government.
	▲	jareklupinski 14 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		loud people have a tendency to paint others in their own sins a type of ?projection? that happens to be more prominent when one is unable to perceive second- and third-order consequences of their own actions