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Originally Posted by m21sniper
In reading this thread some of you have ridiculous notions of what poor people should be like....
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I basically agree with what you say. There is much to consider in addition to what one first visually percieves and often, that which ought to be considered isn't readily available to do so. In Wayne's example, I can't judge the people without more information.
If I imagine a scenario within which I'm an honest, hard working father supporting my family to the best of my ability and no matter that I'm doing the very best I can, we are living at or below the poverty level and my wife and kids have no more than the bare essentials and the prospects of that situation changing for the better are slim to none, I would be torn with sadness and maybe not think it unreasonable to somehow scrape together enough to buy the family a really super TV for my kids to have as at least one luxury item of their own, which would allow them to at least experience vicariously through that window to the world, some of life's goodness that I just can't afford to give them.
Maybe Wayne's family fits that scenario, maybe not. I don't know.