Makes sense to me.
Then again, you may remember the story in the Bible, after Lazarus was raised from the dead, that his sister annointed the feet of Jesus with this amazingly costly stuff, the cost of which equalled the yearly earnings of a man.
Judas copped an attitude, said that Jesus should diss her for such waste, that the stuff should have been sold to feed the poor.
He pointed out that there will always be poor folks to minister unto, but that she had been saving the stuff for his death, which was imminant. I can see his point, too.
Interestingly, the Urantia Book adds that this incident was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak, that this incident turned Judas totally against Jesus, and led to his decision to betray Jesus.
More recently, some fat guru was on Johnny Carson, and Carson asked him why he didn't seel his Rolls-Royce to get money to feed the poor. The kid replied "If I did that, they would just be hungry again tomorrow, and I wouldn't have a car."
And on the other hand, charity just tends to create and perpetuate a dependent under-class.
Maybe the moral of all this, is that there are no easy answers to complicated problems.
Still, I agree with the main thrust of your point.
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