Problem is that in their view of morality letting this food rot IS better than giving it to somebody for free, because getting free stuff weakens the recipients. They actually see forcing them to fend for themselves as doing them a favor. Or at least that’s how they rationalize it.
Literally the ideology that made the Irish potato famine. The whole time the famine happened, Ireland was exporting food to England. And the English refused to give aid because it’d reward those pesky lazy overbreeding Irish poors. When they did send aid they refused to send milled corn so that those lazy starving Irish had to WORK for their damn corn gruel!
More specifically, the Irish famine was because the British government publicly announced that the free market would fix the famine so they shouldn’t intervene. Funny how Communism gets famines on its death count but not Capitalism.
Problem is that in their view of morality letting this food rot IS better than giving it to somebody for free, because getting free stuff weakens the recipients. They actually see forcing them to fend for themselves as doing them a favor. Or at least that’s how they rationalize it.
Literally the ideology that made the Irish potato famine. The whole time the famine happened, Ireland was exporting food to England. And the English refused to give aid because it’d reward those pesky lazy overbreeding Irish poors. When they did send aid they refused to send milled corn so that those lazy starving Irish had to WORK for their damn corn gruel!
More specifically, the Irish famine was because the British government publicly announced that the free market would fix the famine so they shouldn’t intervene. Funny how Communism gets famines on its death count but not Capitalism.
And Ireland’s population has never recovered to what it was before the famine, even after 150 years.
As Jesus intended.