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Having exhausted every legal avenue, what is the most moral (socially-acceptable/least-harm) illegal option you need to do in order to keep alive? This is a fa
by nandemo 17y ago
Having exhausted every legal avenue, what is the most moral (socially-acceptable/least-harm) illegal option you need to do in order to keep alive?
This is a fair summary of a very twisted argument.
He's talking about very poor Brits, and his audience are supposedly the not-so-poor British.
Now, UK has an extensive welfare system. How many people come even close to starving to death there?
And assuming his audience is composed of mainly middle-class people, why doesn't he simply ask them to donate to the poor? He claims that "the hard reality is that a vicar's salary is not designed to meet the needs of everyone", but somehow it doesn't occur to him that he's not the only one who could donate.
How come shoplifting is better than begging? The passages below
One might tell them to get a job, but it is at the very best of times extremely difficult for an ex prisoner to find work
the likelihood is that, found begging, they will quickly be in trouble with the police, and therefore in breach of their parole.
made me suspect this was an elaborate satire.
I also wonder if the shoplifting suggestion also applies to poor people without a conviction history.