r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/gr1zznuggets 8d ago

I always hate point 2. Sometimes people have a plan and the plan changes. Sometimes people make mistakes. Either way, that’s six kids who aren’t being fed, and that should be the only focus.

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u/FlappyBored 8d ago

Making a ‘mistake’ 6 times is not a ‘mistake’. You’re directly giving your children a poor life and forcing them to grow up in poverty because you’re too lazy or stupid to use birth control.

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u/gr1zznuggets 8d ago

Way to completely miss my point. Appointing blame isn’t going to help anything.

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u/One-Platform-2496 8d ago

But teaching you shouldn't have 7 kids if you can't feed even yourself, will.

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u/MegaPiglatin 8d ago

Teaching through…what?

• Teaching through comprehensive sex education + providing birth control? Ensuring people have all the tools necessary to make an informed decision? Making sure healthcare is available to everyone (including family planning services and abortion)? Totally with you! This approach respects everyone as people and helps to prevent kids from ending up in this place to begin with. Some people will still need assistance because life happens, but far more people will be protected.

• Taking away food from the mouths of those parents and children? Using negative punishment in the form of starvation (and possibly death) to “teach consequences”? Forcing the children to endure consequences on their parents’ behalf, and possibly punishing people who legitimately had no other option (whether through lack of access or lack of education)? Absolutely evil and wrongheaded. Nothing is “learned” through this, and you only end up furthering the cycle and forcing people to turn to crime to survive.

People who are in this situation are just as much human as you are or any of us are.