That is very encouraging and beautiful.
Thank you. We live in a very imperfect world, but if we don’t see others as human beings with the full potential we have ourselves, then we’re no more *acting* as human beings than the underclass so many right-wingers want to “spay and neuter.” Either we’re all fully human, or none of us is.
And what is the contention, so often posted, that nothing can be done about the welfare system but the same “learned helplessness” that keeps Theodore Dalrymple’s patients from taking any control of their lives? It’s just another way of saying that nobody is an active agent, “the forces” are too big for anyone to affect ... or in other words, Marxism.