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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 @03:38PM (#8500264)
Wow,

It's hard to kind of shut off the automatic empathy that pops up, but you have to realize these are people just like you that ended up with a serious short stick in life. You need to treat them like that, instead of infantilizing them.

Oh, these are people like you, that's why you can't help them. Just let that sink in...

I guess the conclusion of the parent is that everyone who has any needs must be herded and controlled by professionals and that all human solidarity just makes people lazy, greedy and out-of-control. That is the story of the modern neo-liberal order right?

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Re:More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the... by cauterized on Thursday October 23, 2014 @06:11PM (#8501032)
You sure that's not the neo-conservatives you're talking about?

-from a liberal who agrees with the meat of your opinion 100% but questions the polarized political content

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Re:More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the... by dragonwriter on Thursday October 23, 2014 @06:21PM (#8501070)
> You sure that's not the neo-conservatives you're talking about?

What the GP is talking about seems more neo-liberal than neo-conservative (which are different, overlapping, right-of-center, "conservative" in the sense usually used in politics, movements.)

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