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  • Do not other him, do not de-humanize him, or anyone. Ever. Pity him absolutely, hate him if you’re inclined.

    Everyone is born a human, be they typical or divergent. Whether they are typical or divergent, we are all human. The whole point of shifting to “neurodivergent” was to reduce the dehumanization of those with differently structured brains.

    The owning class live in their own bubble of affluence and excess. Their lives have been fundamentally different than that of the working class. They have devised their own morals, their own ethics, their own nations and religions and empires for all of human history. The owning class are just as much the products of imperfect human systems replacing imperfect human systems, as are the working class. It’s all generational trauma, year after decade after century after millenia.

    Yet, they are still human. To think otherwise is to consider yourself superior in a fundamental way. To think “I would never do that!” without considering how the fundamental differences between your upbringings is a judgement call made in bad faith.

    This is not to say I think they shouldn’t be punished to the full extent of the law. There is absolutely still personal responsibility regardless of your upbringing. But when we base or bias our systems off of/towards rewarding adversarial human emotions should it come as a surprise when we raise adversarial humans?

    Regardless of their nature or nurture, we are all humans, we are all stuck on this planet together, and boy is it heating up fast.


  • I do think it’s important to help people get back on their feet, and I appreciate these pastors’ willingness to help,

    Great start! Before continuing the rest of your sentence, please back up two commas and ask the question “where did our society fail in supporting this person to cause them to fall?” But the devil’s after that second comma, because

    but it has to be done in a way that doesn’t put an excessive burden on the community as a whole by creating safety hazards for other people.

    A community in a society concerned about supporting these people from the beginning, not just trying to fix the most visible symptom, would not see the presence of a fellow human being as a ‘safety hazard’ or ‘burden’ but would rightly see it as a failure of their society to take care of the vulnerable.