It is an act of kindness to give a newly rescued victim of drowning, CPR. It becomes assault if continued long past the point of where the person can breathe on their own. Charity ought not create dependency in the one assisted, nor ought it be used to hide or enable evil. There must be a reason why an able-bodied person cannot buy food or clothes. If we were in a lifeboat or stranded on an island, is there any conceivable situation that would make it reasonable for a few abled bodied persons to work whilst other similarly abled bodied persons got the same share of food and clothes but did no work? Can anyone think of any situation in which the group would be better off with only a portion of the group working? If not, then we need to stop promoting this as a solution and start to imagine a better response to poverty and unemployment.
