Hunger is Never an Appropriate Punishment: Feeding the Homeless
Submitted on January 28, 2012
Hunger is not an appropriate form of punishment, no matter what the crime. The number one thing I see people use to justify just stepping over homeless and hungry people in the streets is judgment. This idea that homeless people deserve hunger as a punishment, or perhaps as an impetus to do what society wants, is ill thought out. That thinking is also based in a holier than thou philosophy that can easily be deconstructed as well. Unless you are willing to kill someone for their crimes, cutting off access to food as the punishment is inhumane.
