Elucidating Questions

Poor

It has this almost disgusting double meaning

Poor as in you’re without money

And poor as in poor so and so fell in the lava pit

RIL

But the way the words are used

When you’re talking about a poor person often the topic becomes how they either made themselves be poor, deserve it, or both

In a derogatory manner, yeah?

Meanwhile the other shows compassion

Shouldn’t that be a hint that one deserves such a thing when instead of being “poor them”, they are poor?

Someone at some time saw poor as being pitiful

You pity them

In a way

Pity rather cheapens the intention of a poor them feeling

But that’s what it is

I guess the thing they both often have in common is the speaker’s lack of interest in actually making said pitiful person less pitiful

Not to discount the untold who have helped any person in need

Just this majority

The invisible demon

Had to agree that the COVID vaccine was deadly today for my safety

Alone in a taxi

With a man

Poor me

Who is also poor

Words

I think too much