After hearing that Jesse was born in the Netherlands and lived there for 4 years, I'm rather surprised that he is circumcised. Don't get me wrong. It's not a criticism. I actually prefer cut over uncut if given a choice. lol But maybe one or both of his parents were actually American? Or maybe he's Jewish? haha It's just that cut would not be the norm in Europe.
As a worldly adult myself there's no way that I can condone or excuse what his parents did to him.
I've been to different homeless shelters in my life to help out. Usually I've helped bring the food in that my church has paid for, when we've brought in canned goods, frozen vieggies, bread and freshly purchased meat that we just brought over directly from the grocery store. We've cooked up some very nice hot meals for them. When my church group came in to help feed we
never served cold meals of sandwiches or chips made in advance, or days-old mystery meat (with spotty refrigeration) that could get someone sick. It was a full hot meal that we cooked and prepared ourselves in the shelter's own kitchen. Then we went to the tables and personally served them the plates and beverages. Some other groups who would come in to serve preferred an asembly line serving style where the people got in a long line. We tried that for a while too. But we didn't really like it. We preferred to bring the food to them like they were a guest in our home. Often times many in our group would take home a plate of the food we prepared so we could eat it ourselves at home for our own dinner that night. It was good food and never any food poisoning, I can assure you.
I know it is natural instinct for any child to love their parents regardless of their treatment. Even children who have been physically and otherwise abused, will still want and crave the love, attention and approval of their parents. I get it. I know that Jesse is in a process of rapprochement or reconcilliation with his parents. If Jeese ends up reading this I hope he won't be upset by my strong opinions here. I realize I'm a third party on the outside looking in and can't possibly know all of his family's interpersonal dynamics and the full history. Having said that...
So his parents thought that his pot smoking and 'shrooming was so awful, atrocious, over-the-line, whatever...that instead of handling a possibly rebellious hormonal teen in-house like all grown adults
should...their solution was to kick him out of his home as a minor, put him out literally on the streets...so that he then became a problem for other taxpayers, businesses and law-abiding citizens. No semi-intelligent Boomer parents of 9 years ago (in at least their late 40's at the time) have any out whatsoever in claiming ignorance that they don't know for a fact that a homeless teenager, (male or female) is going to have to resort to prostitution and theft on the streets to either get food or get a roof over their heads. If his parents didn't know that for a fact, then they're either very slow, retarded or downright ignorant of the ways of the world. The fact that they were older adult Boomers in their late 40's (and possibly even much older) and not parents in only their mid to late 30's...makes their actions even worse from a societal perspective. It was incredibly selfish and ignorant to say the very least.
The fact that Jesse admits that he was shoplifting on a regular basis (just to keep from starving) is cringe-worthy in itself. The stress he had to go through worrying if he might get thrown in jail for stealing a bag of chips, and having no money or person to bail him out of jail if it
did happen, is something I shudder to think about. Yes. Of course theft is wrong. It's a violation of the social contract to be a decent law-abiding citizen and to play by the rules of a smoothly functioning harmonious society. But Jesse's violation of the social contract was only a
symptom. The
cause of his actions were the direct result of a much much greater violation of the social contract on the part of his fully adult parents.
Parents are bound by a social contract to try to raise their kids well, feed them, clothe them, provide them good medical care, hopefully teach them good morals, make sure they're in school getting a good education, make sure they graduate. Legally the law and society say parents are fully responsible for the health and physical wellbeing of their children up to the age of 18. They're also supposed to make sure they are prepared as young adults to be able to get jobs and be fully functioning law-abiding citizens in adulthood. Jesse's parents broke all the rules of the social contract when they forcibly sent a totally unprepared 17 y/o kid loose on the streets and the homeless population of their city and state. Then he bacame everybody else's problem while the parents got to enjoy an empty nest, more money in their pockets with fewer monthly expenses for groceries, lunch money, gasoline, utilities, clothes, insurance, incidentals like haircuts and so on. What an incredibly, incredibly selfish
dick move they played both on Jesse and the whole rest of their community. (While they no doubt tried to paint themselves as being the pious righteous ones who stood up against ghastly "drug use" and teen rebellion.)
So when Jesse told about how he almost ruined Thanksgiving with the parents by informing them that he was doing gay-for-pay porn to make ends meet, and how they were so upset... My thoughts were just like if they're so upset by that, knowing that they were the ones who originally cast their precious young son out onto the streets to sell and barter his body for food and shelter... Fuck Them!!! They already showed their own true moral character long ago. Their "parental approval" means squat.
Too over the top??? haha
