Well.... do you want more people dying, or less?
This is like California handing out free needles, which has resulted in mass increase in drug use and more illness and diseases.
The solution is to hinder and discourage risky behavior. Not encourage it.
The same is true in all areas of life. If you have an alcoholic or gambling brother-in-law, and he comes to you saying he blew this months rent....... Do you pay his rent? Or do you direct him to the nearest addiction center?
If you pay his rent, then he'll continue and get worse at his addition, until he destroys his life.
The solution is to direct him to the addition center. Let him face the consequences of his actions, and then he'll hopefully learn from his mistakes and choose not to do it.
And not only him, but other people seeing what happens to him will serve to teach them. If they see him drinking and partying, and you pay all his bills, other people will do the same.
If they see him getting kicked out of his apartment, and then end up in a addiction recovery center, they will learn that is a bad plan.
In all cases.... rewarding dangerous and risky behavior is a terrible terrible option that dooms more people to hurt and pain and suffering. And by the way, is the default ideological view of all left-wingers, and the result of their views is always pain and suffering for everyone.
There is an evangelical shelter operating, I believe in Texas right now, and they will help anyone that comes to the shelter, who is immigrating across the border. They do not at all, go find people in the desert, specifically for this reason. They don't want to encourage people to take an extremely dangerous trek through the desert. They want them to come across the border at a port of entry, and they will gladly serve food, give shelter, and provide family services, and even teach basic English classes to those who want it.
What you guys do.... kills people. Period.
What we do, helps people. End of story.
...and a very amusing story, too!
And 100% true, as well!
Yes, and feeding the hungry encourages them to stay on welfare!
Not really. Giving them free food from government does, yes. But actual real charity does not generally.
Feeding the hungry, doesn't mean letting them live off you, and most Christian charities operate on that idea.
For example, when I worked at the homeless shelter down town, the vast majority of people that stayed there, generally were out in a month.
In fact, one of the duties that I was part of, was creating move-in boxes. This was a large box of common items for moving into a apartment. We have family, and individual boxes. They would contain a set of plates, cups, silverware, bathroom items, soap, shampoo, towels, tooth paste, toothbrushes, toilet paper, even some small pillows and some bed sheets, and usually a 3 pack of light bulbs.
We made hundreds of those boxes.
When people came and stayed there, and fed there, and so on... part of real charity is not just doing that, but also helping people back on their feet.
Another example, is the convict shelter, again run by an evangelical mission. You can stay there, free room, free food, free everything. But... you have to get a job. Any job. Must work 40 hours a week, and they had work placement programs for all convicts. Again, no rent payment, nothing.
Also you must take a class. Any class. A class on typing. A class on pipe-fitting. A class on reading and writing if you need it. But you have to take a class.
All the food you can eat, no cost on a room, no other requirements. And these convicts would graduate from classes, and work full time jobs, and eventually they would move out.
Again... you are helping people to succeed in life. Not helping them stay in their miserable condition for life.
And this is where the Bible is very clear.... 2 Thess 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
So when a person shows up wanting food... yes you feed them. And you help them as best you can. But when you find out that they simply don't want to work, then you cut them off.
All those charities, have that as a rule. The homeless shelter, if the same guy in there for a month, has made no effort to enroll in a training program, has made no effort to get a job, then the shelter manager will sit the guy down, explain how this works, and if he still refuses to do anything... they kick him out.
Not going to feed some perfectly able bodied person who has no mental issues, simply because he wants to be lazy and live in his poverty on the backs of working people... not a chance. So they kick the guy out.
You don't work, you don't eat. And again, we are talking about able bodied people, who don't have mental issues.
But this is the exact opposite of left-wing ideology, where AOC wants a living wage so people can be professional useless people, who sit at home being lazy on the backs of working people. This is the exact opposite of the Bernie, everyone is entitled to help, no matter how irresponsible they are.
Left-wing ideology encourages the worst of human behavior with rewards.
