Quote Originally Posted by architect View Post
To assume that the kuliglig downline will lie idle without the presence of the kuliglig is to conclude that there are no other livelihood options left for them, when in fact, there are so many others.

To assume that the kuliglig downline will resort to a criminal life without the presence of the kuliglig is to discount the fact there are indeed several other viable means of transportation for them.

Being the case, I don't see any point that I might be missing. My reaction to such fallacies would be similar to the one that I might have on hearing a hold-upper rationalize his actions by saying "sorry I am doing this because kuligligs have been banned."

A priest whose advocav=cy was to help the poor advice me before he died that never try to expect more from what a simple poor person is accustomed to doing. If you try to educate a samalamig vendor to something to do something else, prepare yourself for failure... they do not have enough aptitude in them to have them change the ways of earning livelihood than what they've set their minds and taken as a way of life.

The name of the well known priest who stated the Dambanang Kawayan in Pateros have been working for decades with the poor and have had so much heart aches in trying to lift up their standard of living.

Perhaps this condition is why the generation of Moses did not enter the promise land but it was the generation after who as children were trained to being free men entered the promise land.

Same thing with our impoverished Filipino majority... they are shackled with the way they have been programed to live in their mindset and lifestyle that trying to get a vegetable, fish and other vendors and cargo handlers who often uses the kuliglig would be impossible to teach another way of earning their livelihood.