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Originally posted by Superman
You are okay with a system that dooms a certain percentage of the population. I'm not as satisfied, or as greedy, as that.
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A woman found a guy living in a tent behind our local Sears in town. Whatever the eff she was doing in a wooded area behind the store, I'll never know, but he set up camp there and she found him.
The woman offered him help, to which he declined. True to form, the woman entirely ignored what he said and called up the town hall and local papers in an effort to help him. He ended up moving from the attention of being on the front page of the paper.
Some people just don't want help. Are you that elitist that you think you know what's best for him? Would you override what the man wants, like what one of our village idiots did? If your insurance company dropped coverage on your Porsche, then told you to get a family sedan because "it's better for you," would you be happy with them? Why should the government and press scare this man away, when Sears didn't know about him and didn't press charges on him?
In ministry, Christ gave people what they needed to succeed, not a life in a box. He didn't find the formerly blind guy a wife, a house, and a dog, but simply gave the man his sight. Christ above all acted and taught with the philosophy of free will. "Ask and you shall receive" should strike a chord here. I agree with you that those who want help should be helped. But wealth redistribution (outside of voluntary charitable donations) is not the answer.