Cory Booker is about to embark on the SNAP challenge, which is to live for a week as if you were on food stamps (which apparently evens out to about $4.25 per day). The whole idea is to get a taste of what it's like and to dispel this myth of people living the high life on the tax payers' dimes.
So, I decided I'd try it too, and am catching no end of grief from people who are all "You're just exploiting poor people!! You won't really know what it's like because YOU CAN ALWAYS QUIT, AND THEY CAN'T!!!!!!!"
And I think that's kind of ridiculous. Not the fact that I obviously have an out if I chose to take it but the idea that there is nothing of value to be gained and in fact harm to be done by trying to see things from/get something of an understanding of a perspective other than my own.
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So, I decided I'd try it too, and am catching no end of grief from people who are all "You're just exploiting poor people!! You won't really know what it's like because YOU CAN ALWAYS QUIT, AND THEY CAN'T!!!!!!!"
And I think that's kind of ridiculous. Not the fact that I obviously have an out if I chose to take it but the idea that there is nothing of value to be gained and in fact harm to be done by trying to see things from/get something of an understanding of a perspective other than my own.
Thoughts?