"Many if the Ychana's problems would be remedied if only they became better citizens."
"Just how good a citizen does one have to be," I asked, "in order to have water and air, and medical help?"
I think this may be one of the places where my ethics differ from normie ethics most. I was on Reddit the other day and there was a post from an 18 year old who lives with (her I think? don't remember) mom and has a seasonal job now and is planning on going to uni in the fall. Her mom keeps threatening to kick her out over her not making her bed and leaving clothes on the bedroom floor, and the mom did something unusual as punishment that OP is taking as a sign that she might be serious about kicking her out, and she's worried of becoming homeless and how's she supposed to pay for student housing if her mom kicks her out, and I got here when there were only about three other comments and they're all "so make your bed then?"
How good a child does someone have to be to deserve to know she won't be denied housing and education while she's still a young adult and still getting her feet under her?
What do messy people deserve and drug addicts and abuse victims who, like Queter, aren't perfect victims, who might try to hurt their tormentor back? What do people deserve even when we're not good and innocent and well-spoken?
And when does it make sense to switch from pressuring the people presumably most easily pressured into the easy solution, the solution that involves the least upset, and to just let them suffer if they won't get pressured -- to focusing on the hard solutions that mean that the most powerless get treated decently even if they won't or can't be pressured into compliance? And is it a bad thing if that means that sometimes people who would otherwise be pressured into conformity end up not conforming?
