Criminalizing charity

In Houston, it’s a crime for private people or private organizations to give food to homeless people in public.

https://apnews.com/article/houston-homeless-feeding-food-not-bombs-not-guilty-530a5e5931fc6db8f0ab7d51b2331492

I think the law is asinine. But hardly surprising for Texas.

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@moonbus said
In Houston, it’s a crime for private people or private organizations to give food to homeless people in public.

https://apnews.com/article/houston-homeless-feeding-food-not-bombs-not-guilty-530a5e5931fc6db8f0ab7d51b2331492

I think the law is asinine. But hardly surprising for Texas.

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@rajk999 said
I think you need a stronger word than 'asinine'.

@moonbus said
“Unchristian” ?

@suzianne said
Close.

Inhuman.

@moonbus said
“Unchristian” ?

Surely giving to charity is just taking away insentive for people to get off their lazy arses to do things for themselves?

@moonbus said
In Houston, it’s a crime for private people or private organizations to give food to homeless people in public.

https://apnews.com/article/houston-homeless-feeding-food-not-bombs-not-guilty-530a5e5931fc6db8f0ab7d51b2331492

I think the law is asinine. But hardly surprising for Texas.

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@suzianne said
Close.

Inhuman.

@rajk999 said
Satanic. Some Christian sects discourage charity, referring to it as 'works salvation'. So in some cases it is Christian to be uncharitable.

@shavixmir said
Surely giving to charity is just taking away insentive for people to get off their lazy arses to do things for themselves?

@kellyjay said
It isn't inhuman it is something humans do.

@kellyjay said
I wonder what party is in control of the city?

@kellyjay said
It isn't inhuman it is something humans do.

@suzianne said
One guess. It's Texas.