If one has the balls to stop badmouthing people and making sweeping generalizationst and go in and try to actively reform an individual who was raised thusly, (excluding the ones who are too brain damaged from crackparents or mal-nourishement) one usually finds - not your imaginary spoiled child, blissfully living off the tit of the welfare system, but a *grief* stricken young man, living in a war-zone, most of his friends dead or insitutionalized, beat to shit by the teachers, the cops and hearing that demeaning crap from people like you - pardon me for saying it.
He is left bereft of his most precious assest, his self esteem and the knowledge that he has anything to contribute.
Yet he still has willingness and hope that he will find a job, a family and a
life.
Yet he still has energy to learn new skills, to make art and have ideas.
Yet he still wants what many of us do: respect, money, and power....
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"The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer" Heinz R. Pagels - Perfect Symmetry