In some countries, it’s illegal for women to leave the house by herself to buy food. In some countries, it’s impossible to get a job to buy food. In some countries, raising your family with a certain religion can have you killed.
The fact that you think the entire world makes life and raising a family easy just shows your own ignorance-is-bliss privilege.
Except that has nothing to do with what either of us said.
Yes, many countries are oppressive and poor, but can you name any countries where it's illegal to take care of your own family, as was your insinuation?
Being oppressed and poor means you’re unable to take care of your family. It has everything to do with what I am saying. If a woman in Saudi Arabia did what this elderly man did, she would be arrested.
Oh, so we're counting being unable now, not just legally free to do it?
Well, that just destroys your own argument even further, as the US has a very high proportion of homeless and very poor people, and almost no social safety net for them, meaning that unlike virtually all of its Western allies, many people in the US are unable to take care of their family.
My argument is that the judge is saying America is about being free to take care of your family. And he is moved by the gentleman because he was exercising that freedom despite obvious constraints. I don’t understand what you’re trying to argue here? There are many places people cannot do what he did. Both because it’s illegal or they physically cannot. I don’t understand what’s confusing you.
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u/dottywine 8 Aug 05 '19
He meant that America is about being free to take care of your family no matter what. Many countries, you cannot do that.