Like when a drunk neighbor showed-up on our doorstep last night, belligerent for money. Shouldn’t we protect ourselves from such instability? Or observing a prostitute walk into another neighbor’s house across the street. Shouldn’t I guard my eyes from such injustice? Or watching neighbors abuse the welfare system, let alone their own children. Shouldn’t we avoid this—putting our young marriage in a safe, happy setting, surrounded by a white picket fence, with 2.5 safe, happy children and a golden retriever?
Or when I’m tutoring kids who are twelve and can’t read, or
sixteen and pregnant.
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