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Originally Posted by L-Pink
There isn't a local church around that wouldn't have given that old woman $400 to keep her home. She had a problem, ignored the official warnings and didn't seek ouside help. Obviously.
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obviously.
altho its a cartoon to say it was over $400 - I dont know the facts, but it sounds like a cascade of bills someone could not afford to pay. The $400 bill was just a trigger of a series of other events and problems.
because we can't know the actual facts, I am looking at this as a theoretical case. no body thinks it's wrong to throw a healthy person capable of earning the money out of a house for not paying their local taxes.
so the theoretical problem is - are we a society that expects our old people to go begging for help? begging to churches, begging to the government, begging to family, begging to strangers?
why didn't the church, if it was so good, find that old woman in trouble and help her, without her begging?
is it the begging that we want? would the begging have made the church feel better about itself? are we a society that now needs to be begged to do something kind?