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Originally Posted by madgeylou  "well you were able to make it out, why should we help these other people when there's someone like you who can do it on their own?". |
I'm guessing that people refuse to accept how hard it is to climb out of poverty as a shield against having to care in a painful way. I think it is natural when you hear about someone in an unfortunate to feel empathy. I think for some people that is confused with a fear that they will have to give up something or feel a kind of "survivor's guilt".
In conversations like these another one of the stock responses I always see are people waxing nostalgic about a poor period in their college days or going on about their immigrant parents who had less, did more.