Jeff AtwoodOct 29
Dammit Robin, get your head on straight!!
Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@codinghorror This is like saying that nobody should ever be sad.
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aiderOct 30

@pinguino @codinghorror ideally, yes

Especially when easily preventable

Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror But impossible.
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aiderOct 30

@pinguino @codinghorror putting aside that the proposition was actually about preventing poverty not sadness, …an awful lot of sadness can be avoided actually.

Eliminating poverty would go a long way to doing that in fact.

Yes certainly, people will still die and that'll be sad, and sometimes things won't go your way and that may sting.

But the despair of being unable to provide for your children, the tragedy of life lost to poor nutrition, and so much more, they very much can be avoided.

Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror How do you avoid parents being unable to provide for their children? Or to be malnourished?
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aider
@pinguino @codinghorror you feed them
Oct 30 at 3:03amWeb
Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror I don't have the resources to feed millions of people.
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aiderOct 30
@pinguino @codinghorror we do though
Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror We who?
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aiderOct 30
@pinguino @codinghorror society, collective humanity
Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror Humanity includes parents.
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aiderOct 30
@pinguino @codinghorror also millionaires
Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror So, who's gonna pay, all humanity or just a few?
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aiderOct 30
@pinguino @codinghorror humanity collectively, each according to ability
Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror Who comes to decides each one's ability?
Show threadpurple's a fire marshal first aiderOct 30
@pinguino @codinghorror we call it democracy
Show threadpinguinoOct 30
@purple @codinghorror Oh, so Donald Trump comes to decide?
Show threadXCMOct 30
@pinguino @purple @codinghorror
Isn’t this exactly why we are getting taxed?
To cover for welfare?
Still… there is poverty.
So is the system broken? Or is it simply collectively unaffordable?