RE: Atheist Evangelism
November 2, 2023 at 10:22 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2023 at 10:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I would like to assume that the vast majority of food aid programs of every kind are well run and staffed by fully committed and decent people who want to help people (and I don;t think that those people or those programs would vanish if religion did - if religion even could vanish). I could point at the largest direct program in the us, WIC, as an example. It simply doesn't matter. It's the idea itself that is flawed.
There is no amount of direct food aid that we can give people that will do more good than the money it costs to secure and distribute the products. That we refuse to do this for a number of reasons that amount to myths about poor people is what makes programs like them "the best we do" - but the best we do does not necessarily clear the bar for being good, or a good idea. It's preferable to people starving, but then again simply giving poor people those funds is preferable to starving -and- to direct food aid.
There is no amount of direct food aid that we can give people that will do more good than the money it costs to secure and distribute the products. That we refuse to do this for a number of reasons that amount to myths about poor people is what makes programs like them "the best we do" - but the best we do does not necessarily clear the bar for being good, or a good idea. It's preferable to people starving, but then again simply giving poor people those funds is preferable to starving -and- to direct food aid.
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