Quote from: Buffer Overflow on November 10, 2014, 10:59:37 AM

Quote from: dank on November 10, 2014, 12:53:07 AM

Quote from: Vod on November 06, 2014, 04:33:05 AM

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Arnold Abbott handed out four plates of food to homeless people in a South Florida park. Then police stopped the 90-year-old from serving up another bite.
"An officer said, 'Drop that plate right now -- like I had a weapon,'" Abbott said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/04/justice/florida-feeding-homeless-charges/index.html

I can see their point... if you keep feeding the problem, it will never go away.

Give a man a fish...

Teaching a man to fish doesn't mean shit if you're going to take half of his fish away as a tax for teaching him.

There's only a few choices to pick:

1) Have no fish.
2) Earn an honest half a fish.
3) Earn an dishonest whole fish.
4) Steal a full or half fish.
5) Expect others to give you a free whole or half fish.

I've picked #2 in life. What about you?

Quote from: dank on November 10, 2014, 12:53:07 AM

Homeless people are not the problem. The problem is our greed based society that makes people homeless when they can no longer offer the system anything.

I don't really agree with this blanket statement you've placed on every homeless person. Everyone homeless will have their own reasons for their situation.
Example: Let's say a blacksmith refuses to admit that the world doesn't need blacksmiths anymore, he stubbornly refuses to move with the times in another career. No work, no money, loses house etc...
Now, is this society's fault or the ex-blacksmiths?

Oh? It's dishonest for people to eat the whole fish they catch?

That's a new one.

Yet it's honest for thugs to threaten violence if you don't give them a cut of your fish?

Hmm..