There are people with mental disorders who are denied help constantly and consistently. People can’t pay their rent working 2 jobs.
It doesn’t take martyrdom to help people when you can. Once a month, our family spends about $20 total to make food and deliver it to people in our community who are panhandling or homeless. When people find out that we do this, we hear “well, if those people would (1) get a job (2) stop doing drugs (3) stop drinking (4) take their crazy pills (5) some random combo of the aforementioned reasons they wouldn’t need charity!”
Wealth is not an appraisal of morality. Which is more telling: a person who is asking for help or one who is refusing to help when they can?
We continue despite what the they are doing.
Freedom, liberty, equality are not given to us. We have them. Our rights are inherent not doled out by an omnipotent government. We do not exist for the government-the government exists for the people. For so long we have waited for permission to do, to be, to say, to think, to act. We have forgotten there are other options. We are the food for the hydra. It lives on our fear, on our free will, on our resignation and mostly on our money.
We have to get back to the basics. We have to look around and take care of what we see in front of us. We cannot sit in our homes, too afraid to move, waiting for the next sneaky snakey villain to emerge from who knows where. We cannot hand our children a world motivated solely on fear. Don’t get me wrong, i have no death wish. I am afraid that the kkk or freaked out meth-head neonazis will show up rounding up the freak of the week, but if that happens tomorrow i will have done everything today that i can do to make those summabitches know i was here. That means, for me, speaking my mind, helping my fellow humans, listening to good music, reading books, loving who i love, not apologizing for who i am, talking to people and never forgetting that i am and always will be free.