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"parasitical to his parents and contributing nothing to the human experience."

This is nasty language however you put it and you're certainly talking in a way that makes me think that you DO think you are "better" than this person. But you should be careful, I know plenty of "achieving people" who gave their parents or society this or that and ended up with kids with troubles who under your definition "live as parasitical mooches contributing nothing to the human experience".

Would you like people casting those kind of comments at your own kids in future when they don't know a thing about the struggles they may have been through? Because I'm sorry but claiming you empathise with someone and then calling them a "parasitical mooch" out the other side of your mouth makes me think you don't truly empathise with them at all.

Calling a spade a spade does not mean I don't empathize with them. It can also mean Ive walked along their path.

Trust me, I am acutely aware of what they are, how and why they have fallen and the despair they feel. Its a despair of worthlessness which is tragic because we are all images of the Devine and therefore infinitely precious.

Even today, I walk along their footsteps but for the grace of God.

But we get nowhere pussyfooting with vocabulary.

Ah yes of course, describing people as parasites has a long history of leading to positive social change/movements.

I can honestly only assume you are trolling me at this point if you're bouncing between calling people "Devine" (do you mean "Divine"?) and parasites and thinking you have anything worthwhile to say.

I didn't call them Divine, I said they are made in the image of the Divine. And yes, I misspelled.

Despite our constitution, we can still collapse into ruin. Some of us become cruel. Some of is slothful. Sone of us keep it together.

For those of us prone to slothfulness, the end game is becoming parasitical (ie eating off of the work of others without helping out).

Its not that hard to see that a person may be infinitely valuable and still be a problem. Its the basis of our Western jurisprudence!

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