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rob05c  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don’t Feed the Homeless, It Only Encourages Them

    I think the author of this piece agrees with you.

I think so too. I just felt like ranting.

    Homelessness is a problem, but my interaction with a homeless person must transcend statistics because I am human and so are they.

I'm not sure I agree. Hypothetically, what if it were possible to statistically end 99% of homelessness, by passing laws forbidding individual help (presumably along with laws for institutional help)? Of course, it's the classic question of Deontology vs Teleology, and people have been arguing about it for hundreds of years.