I had a little argument with a man at work today over this. He was saying shit like "What is wrong with his parents, he shouldn't have even been there?! What was he doing there?!" I said "He was there doing the job that the police can't or won't do- putting out fires and cleaning up graffiti and protecting businesses from vandals."
The other guy was very fixated on Kyle "shouldn't have been there" and Kyle's parents somehow being failures. I told him I think his parents raised him to have a good conscience and morals, and that he took action that many adults refuse to take in defending a community- it doesn't matter that it wasn't in his home state. It's in his country, and there are communist insurgents staging a revolution through riots- and this young man stepped up and said "Not while I still draw breath."
Honestly. Lin Wood's statement about "why he was there" answers that argument. Go read it. Basically the counter to "he shouldn't be there" is "then anarchists have won" but more eloquent.
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midnightblue1335 ago
Why only marginally? And what changed your mind?
I had a little argument with a man at work today over this. He was saying shit like "What is wrong with his parents, he shouldn't have even been there?! What was he doing there?!" I said "He was there doing the job that the police can't or won't do- putting out fires and cleaning up graffiti and protecting businesses from vandals."
The other guy was very fixated on Kyle "shouldn't have been there" and Kyle's parents somehow being failures. I told him I think his parents raised him to have a good conscience and morals, and that he took action that many adults refuse to take in defending a community- it doesn't matter that it wasn't in his home state. It's in his country, and there are communist insurgents staging a revolution through riots- and this young man stepped up and said "Not while I still draw breath."
So what was your initial hang-up?
potemkin ago
Honestly. Lin Wood's statement about "why he was there" answers that argument. Go read it. Basically the counter to "he shouldn't be there" is "then anarchists have won" but more eloquent.