The Pathetic Masses
Why is it that the struggles of the handicapped, disfigured, or severely disadvantaged pull at your heartstrings and make you want to go out and volunteer at a soup kitchen or donate one of your boats to charity, but the struggles of the merely pathetic only make you want punch someone in the head?
posted by -E at
6:18 AM
2 Comments:
Perhaps because their condition is too close to home, i.e., we identify more with them and can therefore feel anger at their stupidity?
By
Ginger, at 12:10 PM
I think you're right.
By
-E, at 7:12 AM
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