> Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life. Which is exactly why we not only do the whole handouts-as-inexpensive-pe

> Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life. Which is exactly why we not only do the whole handouts-as-inexpensive-penance thing but also make sure to keep the system 'sustainable' as you put it by gating off access to the fish reserves, polluting and over-exploiting communal stocks, 'teaching' fishing as a method of being a reliant user of charity-approved fishing gear with built in planned obsolescence of increasingly confusing and complex dependencies, and of course 'supplement' the rudimentary knowledge with a complete moral reconditioning program stressing the virtues of submissive piety and gratefulness as prerequisite to rather dubious advice on self-reliance.