<p>Yea i did. I told him what he did was rude and what he did was incredibly unnecessary. I mean what kind of people grab something you have in your hand and throw it on the floor. And all he did was to curse at me and say that i have no right to say that to him and etc. And he had the right to throw my things on the floor?</p>
<p>Everyone can have different opinions but it is totally unnecessary to use force to express it. He could’ve just said it and i would’ve been like i don’t care. But throwing flyers on the floor was extremely rude</p>
<p>I’m with you, girl. That’s just straight-up rude. The comments are totally unnecessary and he shouldn’t be calling you ■■■■■■■■. People can be such tools sometimes. I don’t get why everyone’s defending the d-bag whose being a dick and impeding her community service project (that’s she entitled to, fyi)?</p>
<p>That is horrible. People are so selfish.
At my school, a catholic school in an affluent area, we have a service requirement. people fake it all the time, and that annoys me. these kids have SO much, and they can’t spend 80 hours throughout their high school experience helping others? it really frustrates me</p>
<p>Like my APUSH teacher says that she never complained of the cold because her father was a WW2 veteran and fought in Normandy landing and all the epic battles. The Battle Of The Bulge was the coldest time of his life. So her father used to say “You don’t know cold, you weren’t in Belgium in the winter of 1944.”</p>
<p>It is like that. You realize Americans are the richest people in the world. Even the low income families of America are rich relative to many 3rd world countries’ citizens. We do not know hunger. Just think about that.</p>
<p>Although your intentions are good, it really is pointless.</p>
<p>All you are doing is cleaning up the mess.
Maybe if you go watch “Story of Stuff” on Youtube you will understand what i mean.</p>
<p>Also, why not start from the closer regions?
There are tons of people suffering right around you. </p>
<p>And he is a ******bag. Ignore him.
That is the biggest weapon.</p>
<p>Surely he didn’t just grab flyers from your hand and throw them on the floor. Yeah, that’s clearly out of line, but I’m assuming it wasn’t entirely unprovoked. He’s a jerk, sure, but you can take steps to avoid his jerky-ness.</p>
<p>Anyway, keep up your good work. I’m sure others appreciate your efforts (I certainly do), and it will pay off in the end, with or without jerks.</p>
<p>It’s the high school equivalent of pulling on girls’ hair! He wuubss you.</p>
<p>Just ignore him. He’s a ******. Maybe he’ll change down the road. Tons more people support what you’re doing. Go you.</p>
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<p>I’d say the same applies here. Some people just can’t grasp how much of a tragedy it is for millions of children and adults to starve, and so they are apathetic to the issue. It’s not so much bigotry or selfishness as it is perhaps ignorance or innocence. So, no need to castigate him, but just be aware that he might not comprehend the severity of the issue.</p>
<p>Okay, OP , here’s the thing. I think he was a bit rude in the way he spoke to you but consider this
how much are you really helping those kids?
Do you know the name of the country in Africa you are sending food to? ( I have had people ask me to donate for charities for kids in the great big COUNTRY of Africa. So I kind of had to ask that.)
Are you aware that by giving food to those “hungry” kids in Africa you are helping create more hungry kids? Let me pick a specific country, say, Somalia. In Somalia the farmers plant and sell food for a profit to keep themselves alive. Still there are poor people who cannot afford food prices and people go hungry. You, American, feel terrible about this and swoop off trying to save the world. You give free food to Somalians. Now, the Somalians decide to stop buying from the local farmer because how do you compete with free? The local farmer becomes poor/ destitute-- you send more food and it becomes a cycle. It would behoove you more to lobby our government to stop giving farm subsidies to American farmers so that third-world farmers could compete with our farmers. (because a majority of the farms in America are large, corporate-owned farms who don’t need the money anyway) but I bet you never thought of doing that.</p>
<p>Treat others as well as you want to be treated.</p>
<p>Like I said, he could have been nicer. but I essentially agree with him. See my other post.</p>
<p>@nil: Interesting, I never thought of it like that. Makes perfect sense though.</p>