Hell in A Handbasket

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Also: last month I went to a birthday party where I saw my old housemate from college days.

Said housemate is one of those people who feels uneasy about organ donation and isn’t registered as a donor, but frankly admits that he’d have no qualms about taking a kidney or a liver from someone else if needed. This is an issue which I feel strongly about so I discussed it with him several times whenever it came up. He never had any good arguments, he is not even religious, but nevertheless continues to feel “uneasy” about it.

A friend of his, which I haven’t seen in years (the following text should explain), did an internship in Indonesia as a student along with my housemate himself. This particular friend accumulated a large student debt (i.e. taxpayer’s money) with the intention of never paying it back. After he got his degree he went back to Indonesia to work there and if he would ever receive a letter demanding repayment he would ignore it, thinking it would be too much of a hassle for the state to go after him. I hope he’s wrong. We’re talking about 10.000 – 20.000 E’s at least.

Another friend of his was at the same party and was a petty thief in puberty. At that party he told us that even as a student and even after he graduated he had no qualms about stealing bicycle’s if he didn’t have one himself and was too lazy to walk. Even now that he had a job with a reasonable salary he didn’t see anything wrong with it; his personal convenience is extremely important to him and besides if you own a bike you’re just asking to have it stolen from you. Personally, I’ve been the victim of bicycle theft multiple times so this seriously pissed me off.

At this point I’ll mention that my old housemate and those two friends attended a type of school called “PABO” over here, and are now all teachers for either elementary school (till the age of 12) or early high school (till the age of 14). All of them are nice guys to drink a beer with, but if I believed in any particular deity I would pray for the future of this country’s children.