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Post by M is for Morphine on Apr 4, 2012 10:07:46 GMT -5
Lol, nevermind, they've made it illegal to feed the homeless outside in Philly. : / Guess it will have to be money or nothing.
Suuuuure it's not. The Barnes just happens to open right after this goes through.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 15:05:32 GMT -5
Lol, nevermind, they've made it illegal to feed the homeless outside in Philly. : / Guess it will have to be money or nothing. What is this, a Death Eater law?! If they've passed this law than something is seriously wrong with the governor. It seriously makes me outraged that they've practically illegalized saving the lives of the desperate. To make a long story short, this law seems to say starving people deserve to die. Children included.
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Post by Stal on Apr 4, 2012 15:23:56 GMT -5
Lol, nevermind, they've made it illegal to feed the homeless outside in Philly. : / Guess it will have to be money or nothing. What is this, a Death Eater law?! If they've passed this law than something is seriously wrong with the governor. It seriously makes me outraged that they've practically illegalized saving the lives of the desperate. To make a long story short, this law seems to say starving people deserve to die. Children included. Woah, hold up. It makes it illegal to just give food to the homeless in panhandling way. There's still shelters, charities, etc. And even with the law on the books it may not be thoroughly enforced. And there is a difference between homeless and starving. There's some economical and ideological reasons for the laws (maybe even safety reasons), though I think making it illegal is stupid. Likely has more business reasons behind it, as Teow pointed out, and I would likely disagree with those underlying reasons. But it's not condemning people to die. Stupid, somewhat heartless, but not a death sentence.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 21:32:47 GMT -5
Lol, nevermind, they've made it illegal to feed the homeless outside in Philly. : / Guess it will have to be money or nothing. That's kind of really pants on head idiotic ... wow, I'm actually angry over this. :/ As a thought, though, it doesn't necessarily prevent one-off handouts, right? I can't imagine someone who just hands a homeless person a loaf of bread instead of a few dollars would get into trouble for that, it seems that it only really applies to organizations trying to execute this sort of thing en masse.
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Post by Komori on Apr 5, 2012 12:26:47 GMT -5
Maybe there's some sort of food hygiene problem in play there? Though I can't imagine it would be all too different than, say, a festival tent handing out food...
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Post by Crystal on Apr 5, 2012 18:47:45 GMT -5
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Post by dragonsdomainaa on Apr 6, 2012 23:20:13 GMT -5
Hmm, this is complex... Our maid has a hard time saying no, and she donates to these institutions very often. The problem is that these groups get the money for themselves instead of helping those in nee, the man who is painting our house said he saw it for himself! Once he was painting one of these groups' building and someone donated them huge televisions for the children to watch movies, and the owner of the institution himself said "They're not going to use it, I'll take it for myself", and watched as he loaded it on his car. What charity was that?! I need to know to never donate to them
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Post by dragonsdomainaa on Apr 6, 2012 23:23:08 GMT -5
In my opinion, I think you should give money to homeless. If you can tell they're not faking it, that is. If they spend the money on alcohol, etc., well, that's their choice. At least that's my opinion.
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