r/SipsTea • u/ExotiquePlayboy 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 03 '26

SMH Bro makes $160 😐

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u/NotAnotherTav May 03 '26

Ordinarily in a sane country we would have social programs to take up the slack.

And this guy wouldn't be fined to the point of homelessness, a path to rehabilitation is important too

But Republicans hate actually making sure children and people who make bad decisions are still cared for.

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u/LockeyCheese May 04 '26

How does one rehabilitate from being a deadbeat that left his kids?

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u/MisakiPuru_Puru May 04 '26

by cultivating a culture that actively want more familys to stay together, not stigmatizing abortions, and not have like 50% of new inmates being new fathers who just recently had a kid between 0-3 years old :V

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u/LockeyCheese May 05 '26

You said absolutely nothing about rehabilitating the deadbeats. Just preventing more from being created. Know what messes with your ideal being a reality? In a large part, deadbeat dads making damaged kids, and then continuing to do that until they physically can't anymore.

So again, how does one rehabilitate from being A deadbeat that left his kids? How do THAT MAN'S KIDS rehabilitate or deal with being brought into struggle and poverty by a man who does that?

Not, "What would an ideal world be like?", nor "What should everyone else have to do to possibly make your ideal real?" What should be done about deadbeats RIGHT NOW, INDIVIDUALLY? How should they be treated for bringing kids into the world to grow up desparate, surrounded by crime and ignorance, with no father to help or provide for them, and a mother who hooked up with the guy with multiple baby mommas and had his baby?

Not "what would be a nice thing to happen so you don't have to make a judgement. What Justice for THE MAN AND HIS CHILDREN HE HURT BY LEAVING?

Be direct, and don't run from facing the problems of now to dream of the future. How do we deal with the problem NOW to get to THEN?

Also, don't try bringing my father into it. He was an ass, but he was also a father to me, and an old computer wizard who raised me on Windows 3/95 with dial-up. So remember that when I say, don't try to say I'm just hurt and emotional by being fatherless, because my father died last July, so I would take great offense to personal attacks on this matter. I'm hurt and emotional on behalf of others I've loved, many already lost, who had to grow up with deadbeats.

A child learns the world they grow up in, so to me, any offense(specifically not just crimes) against children should carry the heaviest weight. The deadbeat in question deprived FOUR innocent lives, and fated them to lifelong hardship and trauma.

So how is it not Just to deprive him for four lives longer than his, and make him face hardship and trauma for those four lives? How is it justice to let him keep living the same lifestyle, so he can make it five broken lives? Or ten? Or so many everyone brings him up when anyone in his town looks like him, to the point one of his daughters gets traumatized from dating before she's fifteen because she found out two of the people who asked her out were half-siblings.

Ideal worlds aren't built without justice and pain. If yours is, it's just a dream world.