Atheist Evangelism

[Angrboda]

I think I can sum up my entire position on whether or not handing out food has some effect on my tolerance for a shitty religion to a single question.  When's the last time you heard someone say "Sure, he's a rapist, a murderer, and a thief - but he does hand out cans of peas."  Lay aside all of the well documented issues with every direct food aid program we've ever tried at any scale.  Even if none of that were true.......

You're putting the cart before the horse, much as FF was. You need to show how you quantify harm and good before you rush to the goal line of concluding that the pluses and minuses result in a deficit.

Tell you what. Let's simplify this. Starving to death is a legitimate harm, correct? Is avoiding starving to death not a good?