Today in "Am I Actually Reading This Shit?"

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Arizona residents show some basic human compassion, get ticketed for littering.

But opponents say the water drops are encouraging immigrants to continue to come across the border illegally. The critics say there ought to be Border Patrol agents stationed near the water stations to arrest those who are crossing illegally as soon as they finish drinking. So furious are some at the practice of aiding immigrants that they have slashed open the water jugs, crushed them with their vehicles or simply poured the water into the desert.

These "critics" ought to get charged with murder. One of the people profiled in the article found the body of a 14-year-old child in the desert just before he was ticketed.

Comments

[mad-bertha.livejournal.com]

Truly depressing. Unfortunately, I come across these type of sentiments over here too--'do gooders' gets thrown around a lot :(

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

This is something I have never understood at all. Why would you not want to be a do-gooder? Why is that bad? I mean, do-gooders do good, right? And good is, like, good.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one always sort of makes my brain explode a little. It's like I'm back in grade school and today is Opposites Day or something.

[mad-bertha.livejournal.com]

It's thrown about by the same people that use 'bleeding hearts' and these are people who mistake callousness and selfishness for rationality.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

It seems that in America that if you're no selfishly concerned for yourself 24/7/365 then you've got some kind of moral problem (instead of the other way around). We are becoming a culture that is downright sociopathic in terms of our narcissism.