Steve QJ
Dec 12, 2020

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Well sure, but we’ll all reach a point where the difficulty is too high. That’s why welfare systems exist, to help those who, for a variety of reasons, are struggling. This point exists for you too, it’s just that life has been kind enough, and you have been gifted and hard-working enough, that you haven’t had to weigh your morals against it.

Maybe I’m missing something but your argument seems to be that if people don’t succeed it’s because they didn’t try hard enough. That if one woman can do it, everybody can. It’s unquestionably true that some people do fail because they’re lazy and entitled. But to argue that it’s true for everybody who struggles seems a very blinkered and simplistic way of looking at the lives of those less gifted or fortunate than you are.

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Steve QJ
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