What A Waster!

"schemes are full of pregnant teenagers, unemployed, semi-literate thugs on benefits. They are all a bunch of wasters!"

While it is true that schemes are not the prettiest places on the planet, it is not true that we cannot label all inhabitants as "wasters". While there may be some people who live there who are 'smackheads' or 'junkies', it is unfair to label all people who are on benefits or who are on low paying jobs as wasters. These people may be trying to achieve more and may aspire to live the glamorous life, but tough economic positions or too many children may cause financial strain. Or, another high possibility, is the burden of drug addiction scarring families and draining finances. And while it is true that these people are to blame for falling into addiction, it is not their problem that they cannot recover from it. While they recieve money, it is too much to ask that they will save the money to do up their house or buy a nice car. The fact is, they recieve a nearly no money and have to live on this, and drugs give them the opportunity to escape from this problem.

Education is at the root of these problem lives. Not only through schooling, but also through basic education that all people get. Learning from siblings, parents and peers. The high pregnancy may stem from a lack of sex eduxation at school, lack of education on contraception or lack of education on abortion opportunities.
Unemployment may stem from lack of basic schooling education, lack of warning and education on the future and what may be needed to achieve higher eductaion.

Of course there are excuses for people's problems. People who live in poor housing and have health problems can always blame society or the government for not providing, when in fact enough may have been provided but they just weren't ready and willing to use it.

What we see as a poor lifestyle may not be deemed as poor by themselves. They may be content with a poorer lifestyle because their upbringing was very similar and they do not know any better: they may be somewhat proud with how they have turned out and expect their children
to turn out the same way.

It is all about our moral views on others, and comparisons made between us and them. Also the definition of a person who is a "waster". A person who gets involved with drugs from an early age and lives on the dole, dying at the age of 28 may be a waster. But a person who achieves 5 A's at higher level and opts NOT to go to university is surely also a waster as they are wasting the opportunities given to them.

The given statement (found at the top of this page) is a total generalisation. It is a personal view of a judgemental person without all the facts. It is wrong to view someone as less of a person or as a "waster" because they achieve less. The problems for them achieving less may be in our society: high drug numbers and frequent use, poor parenting, poor education, falling in with the wrong crowds etc. But it is wrong to generalise all people who do not have as good a life as us in terms of quality as "wasters".