More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the Homeless

Re:More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the... by pdeuchler on Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:38PM (#8499899)

I realize that I probably sound like a bit of a dick, and I apologize for that, but I've been having this argument for many years and it definitely gets frustrating to explain the situation and have people essentially ignore everything you just said and say "well yeah but what about..."

Part of the problem is the mentality people go into this issue with, and changing that will do wonders for the various initiatives trying to tackle this. That said, it's something I had to go through myself so I should probably be more empathetic

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Re:More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the... by joe_the_user on Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:18PM (#8501831)

I probably sound like a bit of a dick

You sound reasonable on first blush but your words are aimed to harm and crush the weak. That you put your apologies for a regime for the policing of the poor in apparently plausible and benevolent terms simply makes your words more harmful.

I think you should be ashamed of yourself.

Edit: Your parent post is very eloquent (if deceptive imho) argument for "give up on helping your fellow human, instead trust the authorities". Are you happy with living in a world like that really?

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