Making marginal people average OR Making average people great. How would you rather spend your life? ?

Question

Would you rather take those destined for failure and give them an average life, or those destined for average life and give them wealth & prosperity? If your life had to be about doing one or the other, which would you choose & why?

Answer 1

I hate manipulating the people.

Answer 2

O.K. -- I'm afraid that I'll be sorry that I have been attracted to try to answer this question, *BUT* -- what 'hit' me was the overwhelming immediate response that "jumped into my mind" upon reading the question. I said to myself: "Oh, I would want to do my best to work with the 'down-trod & average' people to try to raise them up to a *GOOD*, *ADEQUATELY PROSPEROUS* life.

But, MY life is close to being almost *ALL SPENT*

Answer 3

I would rather choose  marginal people average..I can feel normally getting along in between..the great ones and the normal ones even those below than that...I will love too..And make friends with many..to understand people and life in a broader aspect.^^  

Answer 4

I would attempt to make marginal people average.

Average people are the backbone of a healthy society.  They keep things going, their hard work allows great people to go on to greatness.

Marginal people are the unfortunate result of success for the few.  They are left to feed off of the filth of society, and are marginalized further because of it.  When a homeless man asks you for change, do you give him money, or tell him to get a job?  When that homeless man applies for a job, do they give him a job, or tell him to get a shower?  When a homeless man needs a shower, how can he get one?

If I spent my whole life making one marginalized person average, I could go to bed knowing that because of me, someone had a safe place to sleep, a respectable occupation, and a reason to live.  If I failed... well, when you try to scrape someone off the bottom, and fail, they don't have far to fall.

If, on the other hand, I spent my whole life making an averge person great, what have I accomplished?  there are a lot of great people that are miserable.  Not everyone who can be great should be, and a lot of times, fame comes with a hefty price.  Some great people go on to aid humanity.  Others go on to destroy themselves, so whether or not I've done any good is an open question.

What if I fail to make an average person great?  Well, I've probably wasted a lot of their time and effort in the process.  I may have instilled in them a drive to succeed that they can never achieve, or, I might have just ruined them completely.

So, with making a marginal person average, it's good, or neutral, but with making an average person great, it's good, bad, or neutral.  Plus, what does it take to be average?  Not much.  Making marginal people average is easier than making average people great.

If average people really want to become great, they'll find a way to do it themselves anyhow.  It only takes average intelligence and a few above average skills to attain greatness.  If a marginal person wants to become average, they may lack the mental, physical, or financial resources to do it by themselves.

Answer 5

I would rather make obnoxious people cry

Answer 6

Helping mankind rise to that which is best, this is a rewarding endeavor.

Answer 7

You put your thoughts into very constrictive boxes.

My life is not about any other destiny.

I help the average and the 'failures' just as I help the great.

Wealth and prosperity have nothing to with success or failure.  We are all put here, on this life plane, to lead ourselves to God.

Period.

Answer 8

I already believe that i have lived an interesting and exceptional life.

I don't need others to validate that nor do others need to even know.

Definitely changing mistakes would be my choice. it isn't possible so I really can't answer that.

Answer 9

Oh, i'd rather not have such a huge responsibility for another person's life, but if had to choose i would assist the unfortunate and the paupers. I think vanquishing poverty would be a great thing for this world.

Answer 10

That's a no brainer--I'd take those destined for failure and give them an average life.

Those who are destined for an average life will obviously have to deal with less stress and battles than those destined for failure. Therefore, why not take those poor souls who'll be miserable and allow them an average lifestlye?

I'd make marginal people average--I'm pretty sure the average-destined person won't miss being rich since they never were... wait a minute, ironically, the failure-destined person won't miss being average either will they? Hhhhmm good question

But if I had to choose--I'll help out the failure

Answer 11

The best way to help the poor is to help the great.

The great and prosperperous would be able to create much better jobs for marginal people than would the average person.   Over-all, more people would be better off by focusing on the great and wealthy.

Answer 12

It seems really great people went to the ignorant and poor first--those with less-Jesus, Apostles, Gandhi, Buddha, Nightingale, M. L. King, Mother Theresa, Lincoln,  and  many more--perhaps there is a lesson there.

True, average people often have a higher standard of living and often are easier to deal with, but at the same time, they may attach more meaning to possessions than to relationships, thus placing too much emphasis on having and too little on being. They then tend to measure a person’s importance and worth according to his job, salary, or possessions, rather than his knowledge, wisdom, abilities, or positive characteristics. Happens often.

I will go with the less than average--IF they  have the heart and values and are willing to learn. Not everyone is rather average or not. And I think more spreads that way-look at the times above with the ones I named--often even the average or  above average jumped on the band wagon. If they see something that will help them be better (or at least look better they will come on their own IF they are willing to learn.  And I think you will be helping even their children too.

Answer 13

Power corrupts those not destined for it. The truly rich and strong in Spirit rarely seek power for it requires in these times great compromise and a sacrifice of one’s soul to the purpose and agenda of politicians and media.

An ordinary life in obscurity by one’s own principles or as one of a mass of mediocre minions magnified to validate and empower mediocrity, repeating parrot fashion the given idioms of other small miserly souls masquerading as the celebrated or great...

Hence we have a mass of gilded dung pies from Satan’s heap, and a former mistress and w***e as future Queen.

Marginaly preferable to live in poverty and rags than succumb to such hypocritical tyranny. In rags I remain. Great minds and souls with a semblence of dignity and sense of honour refrain and abstain from the elevated commercialised and contrived *celebrities*.