Re: Is being generous really a kindness?
Originally Posted by
Twink55
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I am not sure how I feel about this & would like to hear others opinions.
I am always generous when feeding animals as I feel humans are often responsible for the fact they are hungry.... but I won't list the reasons as there are too many!
I don't like to see person go hungry either, but if we teach them that somebody else will provide food for them aren't we making them too dependent on that somebody & encouraging them to stop finding ways to feed themselves?
I always think that if you become dependent on another for food, what happens if they stop providing it.... as many will if they lose jobs, owing to the Corona virus?
We put food out for animals and birds that come into our garden. Only thing is that the Badgers in particular come and scratch at the door if we're a bit tardy in the evenings!
The foxes, one in particular, will come indoors and snaffle Snots food given half a chance. We've got a couple of blackbirds that will happily take suet and mealworms from our hands and we put cat food out for hedgehog/s.
It's like a bloomin' menagerie!
There's an old girl in the village that's housebound who a few of us regularly pester, especially in Winter but that's just be a nuisance.
Her house is really strange. She claims to be teetotal so we can't understand why bottles of Guinness evaporate and the same happens to Harvey's Bristol Cream. A bottle just vanishes within ten days!
That's yer lot.