• @[email protected]OP
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    156 months ago

    Is the point of charity to feed the hungry or to let rich people feel good about themselves?

    It doesn’t matter to the hungry person if the food they eat was paid for by taxes or voluntary charity. Food is food.

    • @[email protected]
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      -116 months ago

      Ultimately to help people, but if you’re forced to, that doesnt mean anything. It just means you figured paying taxes was easier than going to jail

      • @[email protected]OP
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        6 months ago

        It doesn’t mean anything to whom?

        Cause I bet it means a lot to the people who need food and shelter.

      • Stardust
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        106 months ago

        Uhh it means the hungry person is no longer hungry. That’s pretty meaningful to the hungry person.
        If you mean it doesn’t mean anything to you, then that’s your deal.

      • @forensic_potato
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        36 months ago

        I’m not so sure. That smells a bit of entitlement if I’m being honest. If an unhoused person or a single parent in a food insecure household get food assistance/school meals for example, I’m sure the help meant a lot to them. It doesn’t seem like it means anything to you because you have the luxury/security to worry about ethics and other more abstract things. But if you’re hungry, food is food. Help is help. And if you were forced to give the food…those people still get to eat at the end of it all