• ngdev@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    how is this a shower thought? and if it is why is it in quotes? and if it isnt and its actually a quote from someone else then where’s the name of the person that should follow the quote?

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    3 days ago

    I’ll be sure to let my father know he doesn’t need his doctors’ help for his cancer, he can just fix himself!

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      This will be a generalization, so it doesn’t apply to all cases, but for the most part, you are far worse at helping others if you’re unable to help yourself. If you’re unable to show others as an example of the fruits of their labor of change, it will be far more difficult to lead them to helping themselves.

      The goal is not to hand people fish. It’s to teach them. If you just give someone your help without teaching them, they will only become reliant on that help.

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    While its definitely true that you need to take care of yourself before you can help others, this sounds like some Ayn Rand shit (advocating individualism over collectivism). The proletariat need to recognize the bourgeois are a shared enemy and that organization is necessary to defeat inequality.

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    Or, and hear me out- if you want to help people you can volunteer in your community which is understaffed and underfunded no matter where you are. (U.S and territories only, I’m sure that’s not the case in actual developed countries)