just wondering

  • @[email protected]
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    114 hours ago

    Who are you to decide what they’re allowed to buy? You’d rather have someone go hungry on the off chance they might buy something you don’t agree with?

    • @lemming741
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      410 hours ago

      Who am I to decide what my money is spent on?

      • @[email protected]
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        17 hours ago

        Giving another person money usually implies the transfer of ownership of that money to that other person, unless otherwise specified.

        • @lemming741
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          25 hours ago

          I think people have the right to do that conditionally

    • @Lifecoach5000
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      512 hours ago

      Buying them some food I think is the compromise here.

    • molave
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      613 hours ago

      It’s ultimately an assessment done in a case by case basis. Another example: will you give money to a relative who will use it for gambling? Helping someone turn around their life and enabling their habits are different things.

        • @[email protected]
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          312 hours ago

          That’s the point of the original comment and you are bullshitting “how dare you decide what they buy!”. They own the money and they decide that they won’t spend money to improve a homeless person life if it won’t improve it.

          • @[email protected]
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            312 hours ago

            The point is to help this person temporarily alleviate a problem they have, whatever that problem may be. If you don’t want to do this, fine, but if you’re only willing to give money if they use that money in ways that you deem wholesome, that’s patronising.

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              11 hours ago

              help this person temporarily alleviate a problem they have

              And you mean drinking fucking alcohol lmao. Yeah it’s gonna made them feel better for a minute, sure, lol. And fuck them up even worse after that. It’s like giving drugs to drug addicts, wtf.

              in ways that you deem wholesome, that’s patronising.

              No onre said “wholesome”. If so, trying to help honeless people is “patronozing” then generally. Goverment is “partonizing”. Organizations that want to help them are “patronizing”.

              People on lemmy are SO deranged.

              • @[email protected]
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                17 hours ago

                The problem is that you are convinced they’re going to buy drugs. You do not know that person, it is not your place to decide that.

                No, I do not agree that simply offering help is patronising.