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How many brothers fell victim to the street?


Grim_Reefer

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all I gotta say is this' date=' No american citizen can claim they have it bad or live in poverty... If you wanna go live in "poverty" go to africa and stay in the germ infested villages with no clean water and nothing but crap around you. Think about it this way, no matter how bad you think you have it, someone has it 10 times worse. Instead of thinking about the negative focus on anything and everything positive that you could do to change what you feel is negative about your situation. Product of your enviornment? Please you can change anything you want to, except for your president;)[/quote']

The fallacy with telling someone that someone else has it worse is that someone else having it worse has absolutely nothing to do with the first person's problem(s) or their capacity to deal with them. If I'm not physically/mentally/emotionally/financially equipped to deal with a problem, then whether some 10-year-old is starving in Africa or not doesn't matter. My problem still exists, as does my inability to successfully deal with it. Trying to drop guilt onto someone who's in that situation by saying "someone else has it worse" only makes them feel worse about themselves.

That being said, I do agree that people should focus on the positive as much as possible. However, "you can change anything you want to" is idealist, not realistic.

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I don't understand why everyone has to bring this to the forum and TRY and make others believe Bush sucks, Bush rules, or Bush just plain owns this world.

Let's keep politics OFF the forum. That's the best way to start flames, because it's almost as controversial as religion. You know what happened last time we discussed that, don't we?

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who brought up politics? My ending was a joke, further more pali if I was failing at life and someone flew me to africa and I saw what the hell was going on over there, or any third world country for that matter... you best believe I would straighten my *** up and deal with my problems cause no problem is that bad.

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