Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

So just the other day i found myself getting into a discussion with a friend from school about helping other people. Both of us saw eye to eye (which doesn't surprise me, we've both had VERY similar lives up to this point) on the fact that people that don't put the effort in on their own don't deserve help from someone else, i mean why should the person you ask to help you actually help you if you didn't care enough in the first place to help yourself? I've actually had this discussion a few times with different people when they start feeling guilty about me helping them all the time. Because despite me hating to help those that don't deserve it, i also want to see others succeed that actually try. So no i don't mind staying around for an extra 3 or 4 hours to help explain some of the more difficult concepts we've covered because i know they'll use whatever i tell them. But to that person that never tried...well it's just like i'm wasting my time, they don't put in effort to learn it in the first place then why would they care now? What? because they finally see that slacking is going to screw them over and they're going to fail the course? Fine, you're on your own now.

This actually just reminds me (in a very round about way) about differing views. They say the three things you should never discuss in a social environment are religion, politics, and money. And the way i see it it's true, those topics will start an arguement faster than anything else, and that arguement will be more heated than any other. And the reason for this is that people get angry when other's don't agree. but then it's stupid to expect everyone to see something the same way you do, and completely unreasonable to expect them to in the first place. maybe that's just me, but if people could just not get mad about people not agreeing then again...we'd be far better off.