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This is hardly sadism. If you can buy alcohol with food coupons you are not bettering disenfranchised people’s lives.
by whythre 5y ago
This is hardly sadism. If you can buy alcohol with food coupons you are not bettering disenfranchised people’s lives.
- rbanffy 5y agoYou mean poor people should have no right to have a glass of wine at the end of a stressful day, or to use wine for cooking a nice meal, or use a beer for a stew (it'll soften the meat)? There is a lot of judgement going on here and I wonder if it's not something that comes from a puritanical mindset where pleasure should be denied to those deemed unworthy.
- newfriend 5y agoBeggars can't be choosers. If they want a glass of wine, then they can earn more money to pay for it. Otherwise they can enjoy the free food generously given. They are not "unworthy", but they are also not entitled to anything they want for free.
- quantumBerry 5y agoThey don't even have to do that, just buy yeast and some juice/grains, let it sit in a jug you got from some foodproduct on stamps whatever. Tobacco you can grow from seed gathered from a field. It requires work, not money.
- betwixthewires 5y agoOf course they should be allowed to, if they can afford it.
- baron_harkonnen 5y ago> not bettering disenfranchised people’s lives I personally find that even at a high income relative to the general populations a few drinks at the end of the day can absolutely better my life. If I was disenfranchised I can only imagine this would be even more true. I would hope that if someone was giving money to disadvantaged people on my behalf that would also include the ability to buy themselves a drink or a joint in states where that's allowed.
- quantumBerry 5y agoWhy not just offer the money for a drink yourself? There's no need to involve others, especially at gunpoint of the IRS man, in your dream to pay the disenfranchised to get high and drink.