Is poverty a moral failing...

[Brian Peacock]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful. Exploring these issue properly is something that really deserves some proper study, not just a dashed-off blog post shouted into the howling wind of indifference which is the internet. What I'm interested in is representing by views and understandings clearly and honestly. Trying to do that through places like this helps me navigate similar discussions when I have them with real people in real life, where my real work is undertaken. If you think this topic or discussion is inane rEv, don't read it. I'm not here to garner your or anyone else's approval.

[Hermit]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful...

Brian, you are replying to someone, and I'll resist calling him motormouth in order to preserve the piece, and I fear he might fly down to Dapto, who has contributed 31408 responses "here at the arse end of the internet". That makes me suspect that pErvin once again imagines he has made, you know, a self-deprecating, terribly funny joke. He has an astonishingly well developed imagination, has our mouth from the south.

[JimC]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful...

Brian, you are replying to someone, and I'll resist calling him motormouth in order to preserve the piece, and I fear he might fly down to Dapto, who has contributed 31408 responses "here at the arse end of the internet". That makes me suspect that pErvin once again imagines he has made, you know, a self-deprecating, terribly funny joke. He has an astonishingly well developed imagination, has our mouth from the south.

Well, to both of us, the mouth from the north...

[pErvinalia]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful. Exploring these issue properly is something that really deserves some proper study, not just a dashed-off blog post shouted into the howling wind of indifference which is the internet. What I'm interested in is representing by views and understandings clearly and honestly. Trying to do that through places like this helps me navigate similar discussions when I have them with real people in real life, where my real work is undertaken. If you think this topic or discussion is inane rEv, don't read it. I'm not here to garner your or anyone else's approval.

Yebbut it's still an inane topic. Surely you can manage better than this.

[pErvinalia]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful...

Brian, you are replying to someone, and I'll resist calling him motormouth in order to preserve the piece, and I fear he might fly down to Dapto, who has contributed 31408 responses "here at the arse end of the internet". That makes me suspect that pErvin once again imagines he has made, you know, a self-deprecating, terribly funny joke. He has an astonishingly well developed imagination, has our mouth from the south.

So tell us, motorpen, what the profundity is of imagining that morality has anything to do with being poor?

[Hermit]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful...

Brian, you are replying to someone, and I'll resist calling him motormouth in order to preserve the piece, and I fear he might fly down to Dapto, who has contributed 31408 responses "here at the arse end of the internet". That makes me suspect that pErvin once again imagines he has made, you know, a self-deprecating, terribly funny joke. He has an astonishingly well developed imagination, has our mouth from the south.

Well, to both of us, the mouth from the north...

From a purely formal, administrative angle, yes, but that is not the angle from which I look at the Kingscliff Beach trailer park resident. Economically and socially the Tweed Shire is the southern tip of the City of Gold Coast, which is a very Queensland thing. I mean, shit, even geographically the distance from the trailer park to Coolangatta is only a quarter of the distance of the Gold Coast council chambers to the location a Gold Coast feature film was made about. It is no accident that Tweed Heads is known as being part of a twin town, the other half being Coolangatta. So the most charitable way of referring to rEv is to describe him as the mouth from the south of the Deep North. That's a somewhat cumbersome description of him. "Mouth from the south" is a simplification that rolls off the tongue more easily.

[Hermit]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful...

Brian, you are replying to someone, and I'll resist calling him motormouth in order to preserve the piece, and I fear he might fly down to Dapto, who has contributed 31408 responses "here at the arse end of the internet". That makes me suspect that pErvin once again imagines he has made, you know, a self-deprecating, terribly funny joke. He has an astonishingly well developed imagination, has our mouth from the south.

So tell us, motorpen, what the profundity is of imagining that morality has anything to do with being poor?

You could start a thread dedicated to discussing that question. It might just turn out to become even more profound than the thread you created and titled "The thread where you couldn't be bothered posting the articl".

[pErvinalia]

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[pErvinalia]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful...

Brian, you are replying to someone, and I'll resist calling him motormouth in order to preserve the piece, and I fear he might fly down to Dapto, who has contributed 31408 responses "here at the arse end of the internet". That makes me suspect that pErvin once again imagines he has made, you know, a self-deprecating, terribly funny joke. He has an astonishingly well developed imagination, has our mouth from the south.

So tell us, motorpen, what the profundity is of imagining that morality has anything to do with being poor?

You could start a thread dedicated to discussing that question.

Are you lost? That's what this thread is. And there is no profundity to the question. It's inane.

[rainbow]

[Hermit]

So tell us, motorpen, what the profundity is of imagining that morality has anything to do with being poor?

You could start a thread dedicated to discussing that question.

Are you lost? That's what this thread is. And there is no profundity to the question. It's inane.

Nononononono. This thread asks "Is poverty a moral failing?" You are asking "what the profundity is of imagining that morality has anything to do with being poor?" The difference is not difficult to discern for people with an IQ in excess of 65, so I'm sure I need not explain it to you. If you in turn want to explain it to a friend I do suggest, however, that the first question is about poverty and whether moral failing can in any way connected with it, while the second one asks if profundity can in any way connected with asking the first question. It does not require a great deal of imagination to go as far as writing a lengthy blog article about the latter. Done with the level of skill you display in this forum, or maybe just a wee bit better, it might make you even more famous than Rebecca Watson.

[pErvinalia]

Motorpen.

You're lost. This thread is purporting to profundity about morality and poverty. You either think it's profound or you think it's not. My position has been made clear. Yours, I'm not sure. Tl;dr holds little attraction to me. But please do write another mini essay avoiding the point.

[Hermit]

[JimC]

Kiss and make up! Right now!

[Brian Peacock]

I don't understand Brian. Why is he waisting words on such an inane thread when he could be contributing thoughts on my blog posts, or indeed writing his own (non-inane) blog posts?

Hmm. I find that discussing this with others is useful. Exploring these issue properly is something that really deserves some proper study, not just a dashed-off blog post shouted into the howling wind of indifference which is the internet. What I'm interested in is representing by views and understandings clearly and honestly. Trying to do that through places like this helps me navigate similar discussions when I have them with real people in real life, where my real work is undertaken. If you think this topic or discussion is inane rEv, don't read it. I'm not here to garner your or anyone else's approval.

Yebbut it's still an inane topic. Surely you can manage better than this.

I disagree. Attitudes to poverty and the poor inform the public consciousness with regard to the merits of economic and social policy in many areas (and not just to do with welfare programs), economic and social policy as proposed by those who cite certain judgements and assumptions about what kind or type of people comprise 'the poor' in justifying calls to political action.


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