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endersgame69 t1_j61e1a1 wrote

Reply to comment by Black_Hipster in A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years by thenewyorktimes

That just paves over the problem to pretend it isn't one.

Like: Teachers donate their vacation days so colleague can spend time with child dying of cancer.

OK that was nice. But why the hell was that necessary? The headline is wrong.

The headline should be: System allows the parents of dying children no time off to be with them.

Or

Teen denied a motorized chair by insurance company has one built by students.

This 'acknowledgement of niceness' is just pretending the horrible shit is just natural, it's not, it's man made.

The uplifting news in this scenario would be one that marks the end of the need for actions like that.

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Black_Hipster t1_j61ip8c wrote

Sure, I get that. Fact of the matter is that there's a reason /u/thenewyorktimes has some person in this subreddit anyway- and that's to engage in a kind of journalism that adds as fresh coat of polish over the turd that is a society built on misery.

You're not wrong about anything you said, but I'll be real man, it's just good to be reminded sometimes that there are people who will be this consistently generous their entire lives. We can celebrate people who are like that, while also highlighting the systems connected to it.

The article does that, actually.

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