In article <1b2dda99ba70374376dbca4d90c17751@remailer.paranoici.org>,
Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> wrote:
> Hairy Dude, this boy wrote to you in one of these forums, asking your
> help in participating more fully in what they had to offer. Two months
> later, my Hushmail Inbox is still empty of your reply.
>
> Now, you talk about taking care of vulnerable boys, but you don't make
> clear that your sympathy runs out when they get, oh, up to about 16. You
> wear your fort badge like King Billy his brass plaque, your big fat
> self-satisfaction at having got "inside" where all the goodies are (at
> least appear to be) is obscene to those kept out in the wasteland. Let
> me ask you, how vulnerable would you feel if the boot were on the other
> foot. And if you had asked that big-hearted old gramps Doc to open the
> door to a home just a chink, and you found you didn't qualify for his
> "caring", that you didn't appeal to the predator in him for the young
> soul, that you were decades too late for his "love". Too bad that more
> than an arm has been broken in those decades, and the breaking shows no
> sign of stopping.
>
> You occupy space in these forums and that space is no bigger than your
> own needs. You can see and hear all around the guys clamoring to share
> the space you occupy, but you shift not a quarter-inch. You don't
> recognise in these pathetic beggars the young souls that live in them.
> Time has blackened their boy beauty to your eyes. They don't feed your
> appetite.
>
> I have pointed out your contradiction to you before, that by making boys
> a class apart, by making caring and love dependent on age because a
> certain age is where your appetite lives, is in fact a real harm to the
> human beings that boys are and never cease to be no matter how long they
> live.
>
> There is nothing special about boys that is not special about us all. To
> hell with *your* "caring" and "love" for "boys".
>
> MagOb
>
You make some valid points, but your point of view puts then into the
negative too much.
Try some perspective:
There are many people who give to UNICEF to help children, who do not
give a penny to homeless Veterans, and there are many people who give
to organizations that support homeless Veterans, who do not give
anything to help children. Does that make them bad people, for choosing
to help only the people who are closest to their hearts? No, it makes
them good people for GIVING.
And wise people, for knowing if they spread themselves too thin, trying
to help more than they can, they will be ineffective, and waste most of
their efforts.
If we take at face value everything Doc says, and what we can see of
the circumstances of his actions here, it is obvious he receives a lot
of email, much of which is spam. He could have lost or misplaced yours,
or it could have had the wrong address on it. Or he have deleted it
accidentally. I know I've done that. Why not give him the benefit of
the doubt?
There is something else I know. Being disrespectful to someone you want
help from, isn't the wisest thing to do.
This could be why there are so few people who help others here, in
these current times.
Mover, partial advocate of a precious metal "Rule"
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