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Re:When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested by DoreenMichele on Saturday October 19, 2019 @08:44PM (#21301630)
My comment explicitly allows for good faith interest in someone's situation. It's certainly not a suggestion that such comments shouldn't get engagement.

It's possible to speak up and do so more considerately and thoughtfully than is typically done in response to such comments.

Re:When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested by hestipod on Saturday October 19, 2019 @08:53PM (#21301663)
I know...and thank you. I just wanted to be clear I am appreciative of empathetic and kind people. There is enough victim blaming and defensiveness from the masses in the world as it is...I don' want to alienate good people nor harm the acceptance and understanding for others in my situation by sounding ungrateful. For example I remember how grumpy and mean most older diabetics I worked with were and it wasn't because they were bad people, it's because they were worn out from suffering. But to most people they were just "jerks" who were choosing to be jerks.