Book Discussion #2

In this week's meeting we got into a discussion about what people really deserve in life. The book sparked conversation about if everyone in the world deserves the same chance or if you only get what you earn. The section of the book that we read for this week brought us to talk about the people that you see asking for money on the sides of the roads. One of our group members talked about someone from their own town who was a veteran and sat in a plaza begging for money each day. People sympathized with him because he was a veteran and had a prosthetic leg. Then one day someone saw him getting into a nice car and driving to a nice house. This just went along with our conversation about what people deserve. Do people standing on the side of the road deserve our sympathy? Do they have their own situation that we don't know about? Or should they be using that time to apply for a job and make a difference for themselves? This is a question not only raised in our book but in life. Every person is different and no two people will ever have the same situation but the question is if they are doing everything that they can to better their own life.