Why do the ritors ask for Justice?

[Pat Mustard]

I got into trouble when I was 15 years of age. I gave myself up. You assume your own actions. Since then, not a thing. When I was growing up, my parents were unemployed for most of the time I was in secondary school where my friends had VCRs, televisions, games. My parents didn't own not one single thing like that in the 1980s. We didn't have a car, we didn't have a fixed telephone which was the norm in the days. So, sorry to burst your bubble but luck didn't play a part in my life.

Boo-fucking-hoo. There are thousands of people with the same story. But what I'd like to know, if you had such a hard life when you were younger (and I'm not about to take the word of a man who is so willing to lie about everything else), why are you so quick to kick others who are now in the same place where you were, or worse? Are you so lacking in empathy that you can't see a mirror of yourself in others, or are you so greedy that you don't want others to enjoy the advantages you now own?

Hard work did. My father grew up without a dad since he died in WWII, so he had to wear hand me downs to school. He had no education, and neither did my mother. Being poor teaches you things in life and not to take things for granted. I still have an iPhone 3g and it is 6 years old. I can afford any of the newer inventions if I want to but why, when I have my children to think about.

Being poor, intelligent and empathetic teaches you that very little of what you get in this world is down to you alone. No matter how clever you are, no matter how hard working, no matter how frugal, where you grow up, your support group (i.e. family and friends), the attitude of your country's government and it's financial ability to push that attitude count for far more in how well you work out than anything you'll ever do for yourself. If Bill Gates were born in Cambodia he'd be as poor as dirt, give a Cambodian street child the same advantages as Bill Gates had and he'd likely turn out a better person than Gates (though probably not as rich).