Self-serving is admirable?
people do things because they can and because they WANT to.
Does that mean that posters should fawn over this child? Some sound like she was trying to cure cancer.
especially folks like you who have spent an entire day doing nothing but tearing down this girl and her family.
This is a discussion forum. Have you missed that? I have an opinion. You have a different one. So what?
She should be tryign to cure cancer!
To keep your attempt to cherry pick the quote of mine out of context in its proper context, what I said is: “The family doesn’t have to justify this to anyone, especially folks like you who have spent an entire day doing nothing but tearing down this girl and her family.”
The key statement here is that “The family doesn’t have to justify this to anyone…”. But most especially those on this thread who have done nothing but heap scorn and derision on them.
Again, why does this girl or anyone else need to do the world a “great service” when they choose to go do something? You sound like she should be finding a cure for cancer instead of doing anything else.
Your opportunity to state your opinion was never placed into question.
Self-serving is admirable for many reasons. Why does it have to have some public or community purpose? People like to challenge themselves, test their limits. They learn alot about themselves and grow from those experiences. I take it you have a problem with that based on your innumerable posts on this matter.
I take it you would rather those folks who have no “purpose” other than to be “self-serving” do nothing except “serving others”? If so, it speaks volumes about where you’re coming from on this matter.
I’m not “fawning” over her, I’m saying she and her family don’t deserve the criticism being heaped upon them by people who don’t even know them.
Has it ever crossed your mind that kids can do both? I will present Boy Scouts as a classic example. They do things that have no purpose other than to have fun and then they do things that benefit their communities.
Would you be saying the same of a Scout troop who got stranded on a mountaintop because they weren’t doing anything that had a purpose other than to have fun and were challenging themselves, testing their limits?