On Compassion . .

 ** Before you read this blog please know that I am playing devils advocate to make you think and maybe disagree . .


As i read " ON COMPASSION " I was first drawn in by the authors rejoice toward human nature and how she explained that  inside each one of us we should dig down deep to help each other through our struggles, specific speaking toward the homelessness problem. She describes a situation were a restaurant owner fixes a bagged breakfast for a seemingly homeless man every morning; this is when I started to disagree with her. Why fix the man breakfast every morning ? This doesn't solve his problem, if she really cared about seeing this man prosper why not give him a job at the diner ? This just doesn't make any since to me; we as humans have become so dependent upon each other that we do not know how to fend for ourselves anymore. Even though we may have good intentions when we give handouts to the homeless we are truly doing them more harm. Im not saying kick them to the curb and forget about them but instead of crippling the man why not let him fight threw his struggles, it is guaranteed that he will be a stronger man because of it.  For instance even in other species survival is key; a mother bird will teach her offspring to fly and immediately after they are expected to find their own food and begin their own life. If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day but if you teach a man how to fish then he will eat for a lifetime.