A Boring Dystopia

You know what's so sad about something like this?

The conservative seeing this will opt to blame the individual. This conservative will most frequently espouse themselves to be a Christian nonetheless. "Jesus-like" in aspirations and idolatry.

And yet, they'll have the knee-jerk reaction to this image that is saying, "Well they put themselves in that position."

"It wasn't the happenstance of birth locations,."

"It wasn't the culmination of external forces and externalities building to this moment."

"It wasn't the fact that their life was harder than my own."

"Or perhaps my life was hard and I'm using the survivor-bias fallacy to justify kicking the ladder out from under me."

The conservative believes there are lesser people who deserve what they get coming. It's seemingly incomprehensible to them that we humans are quite literally of the same species, and that you must come to the conclusion one of two possibilities: Either (1) We are all a blank slate from the start and thus products of our environment. Nurture comprising the vast majority of what influences us. Which means those left out on the streets; those who take drugs in an ideal state of mind don't want to be there, but are already too far broken from past experiences to reconcile their immediate choices (and need saved; protected; rehabilitated by the same outside forces that put them there in the fist place). Or (2) It is genetic, which means there is a predisposition incompatible with the inherently-flawed system we've built for ourselves. They're a circle in a square system, and it's thus just the same not their choice. And so again, the system should adapt and accommodate them just the same to promote a healthier society overall.

THAT would be more Jesus-like. Not the lazy cop-out that casts them off as degenerates. Such people lack empathy and cannot comprehend the bigger picture.