...without the proper certification, credentials and training.
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...without the proper certification, credentials and training.
madviking
north american scum
#latestagecapitalism
Of course they aren't animals. Animals have a market value.
They want to limit efforts to offer appropriate help. They did the same thing with abortion clinics.
I'm sure the homeless really care about that...
A big mac meal from McDonald's that is handed out without a certificate is not really worth eating even if you haven't eaten in two days. 
jackelgull
An aberration of nature
Please don't pretend people are that fragile, especially when it comes to food. This is just cruel and inhumane.
Farm Boy
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There are a lot of regulations that pertain to who can feed people what when those people are significantly less desperate and significantly more empowered than is generally associated with homelessness. And those ideas are frequently supported by the left rather than pilloried as cynical capitalists.
jackelgull
An aberration of nature
I mostly agree with you, but it is especially cruel in the case of the homeless. The free market at least has a reason to meet the regulations that the government imposes. Those who feed the hungry only have their conscience as incentive, and that might not be strong enough when they have to jump through many bureaucratic hoops to get the right to help their fellow man.
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Cruel? I guess. There's the baseline issue that the homeless are no less deserving of safe food than the rest of us, or so at least I think we would say. But if we want to bend on this and roll with the functional truth that what is not good enough for us is good enough for them, then I guess I suppose we can. More than that though, I think it just gets to the truth of why most of the regulations are there in both instances. They're sticks against certain groups of people that the implementors want to harm or inconvenience in some way. So, you know, standard politics.
You were disingenuous in your original post. It is perfectly legal and moral to feed the homeless if you follow the regulations and guidelines.
I'm sure the smoker really cares about cigarette warnings...
I'm sure the alcoholic really cares...
I'm sure the junkie really cares...
Government has a responsibility to care for our citizens, to protect them. That is it's primary duty.
I suppose a working mom really cares about the regulations governing childcare. I'm sure she just wants it to be cheap and available. Until, of course, she reaps the consequences of her carelessness, and her children are put in harms way.
^^^ If Tim lived in Texas, his girlfriend couldn't make him dinner.
The unscrupulous and the predatory giving them food...
People are often taken advantage of...
By giving them food...
What if a homeless person was given McD's French fires in an unsupervised manner by an uncertified person and they became addicted? They might never get out of that welfare frame of mind ever again.
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