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Can you elaborate on what you find offensive about it?
by monktastic1 7y ago
Can you elaborate on what you find offensive about it?
- VLM 7y agoThere's a logical fallacy problem where everyone knows that people with (legal or illegal) addictions spend all their money on their addiction so giving money is just donating to the local liquor store or crack dealer. However the logical fallacy problem is, true, most addicts end up very poor as the addiction proceeds, but most poor people are not addicts. So giving money to an alcoholic merely means they die of liver failure a little sooner which is "offensive" but giving money to people who are generally poor mostly helps non-addicts. Note there are local issues. In big cities the working poor are too busy to take a monetary handout (panhandle) so virtually all opportunities for urbanites to hand out money, involve feeding an addiction, even if the vast majority of the poor people in the city are working poor.
- Causality1 7y agoIt's difficult to separate the concept of giving money away from the concept of being tricked or taken advantage of. It was not easy to give up the belief that welfare would be best tackled by shipping big boxes of essential supplies rather than a cash or a credit system.