re: #60 Shiplord Kirel

My old church in Lubbock is one of several who support a cooperative food pantry/health clinic/free meal operation. It usually manages to serve a few hundred people a week, about a hundred for the clinic. They have a dentist who volunteers his time to see 12 patients every other week. It is the only source of qualified medical care for many people in a city of 200,000+.
This is a great operation and I am proud to support it, but there is no way in heaven or hell it can replace the current safety net, as this cruel woman suggests,

Implicit in these statements, of course, is that for many of the people who advocate this, they wouldn’t be affected because they are smart and have made good decisions (in their own mind) and so clearly if someone else does need it, it’s their own fault.

Which is bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. Even if it is someone’s own fault, we all benefit as a whole for folks to have food to eat, access to healthcare, and a safety net to fall back on. But they want to be able to pick and choose, to keep it restrict to folks they feel deserve it - with all the undertones that implies. Ultimately they want to play God with other people’s lives, deciding whether they are worthy of a good life or not.