A week into this quarantine and arguing with my parents has already gotten tiresome.

They accept none of the realities of the world and live in this dumb fantasy world where everyone can just magically get rich with just a little hard work.

They don't believe anyone lives paycheck-to-paycheck. Everyone must have some sort of savings, and, if they don't, they're clearly spending it in frivolous garbage. They think anyone not paying their rent deserves to be thrown on the street right now.

They're blaming the spread of #COVIDー19 on immigrants and think Trump was trying to save us from the start and wasn't calling it a 'hoax.' They want prisoners to stay in jail through this pandemic and think "if they die, they die."

Do you know how tiring it is to explain over and over why we can't just "click click boom" a murderer? Or why we shouldn't cut off the fingers of thieves? Or perhaps why we shouldn't physically (not chemically) castrate rapists?

I really worry about my own lack of empathy, but it's only because I've been surrounded by these sadists my entire life. They live in this fantasy so far detached from the real world and claim "that's how it is / should be" that it's maddening to see.