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WCDT Strips 4026-4030 (17th to 21st June 2019)
de_la_Nae:
Like, look, today's strip is a fun gag. But who acts like that? I'll tell you who.
1. Someone very abused in specific ways (possible)
2. Someone really out of touch for one reason or another (probable)
de_la_Nae:
Triple post and then I'm done, but it occurs to me that I should be more fair to the charity sector in saying this: another factor is that you have to be able to survive dealing with people's psychic wounds, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
That sifts a lot of people out, either in that they know how fragile they are and don't go in, or they burn out, or they have the personal resources already to help shore up their own damage that they take. Or they go numb, but that's another thing.
TheEvilDog:
I agree with de_la_Nae to a point (based on the first post of that triple bill).
Most AI are probably out of touch with the idea that there's a "lower class" in their community. Their hearts are in the right place, but they just don't have the wherewithal to actually do anything. I mean, look at Beepatrice, who could see that May was a desperate case, someone in need of help and yet she can't operate a printer or make a phonecall. We might say that Roko is a little pushy or overreaching, but she'll get something done. Beepatrice? I'd start making out my last will and testament.
But its not just her. Its a whole strata of AI society. They are, to all intents and purposes, a generation that has never struggled. Sure, they're finding their place in society, but from the point of view of the majority, its almost perfect. They don't want to be reminded that there are those in their community that struggle with mental illness (Bubbles and Roko), or those trapped in potential cycle of poverty and criminal action (May). And the fact that some of those views are getting shaken up, its not (no pun intended) computing for them.
Somebody:
Well, that downgrades Beeps from "nice but dim" to "unable to function in normal society, should probably be on the other side of the help counter", doesn't it? :sigh:
TheEvilDog:
I wouldn't be that generous.
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