Food: When is it a right or a handout?

[Harry Veeder <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Schulte-baeuminghaus" <schulte.baeuminghaus@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 12:49:21 +0200
To: <gang8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <VOW@xxxxxxxxxx>, <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [gang8] VOW investment

> We don't want handouts - except of course for those already starving and who
> can't wait.

Food: When is it a right or a handout?

If a person over some period in their life objects to working for money,
should they also be refused food until they are starving?

If a persons believes there is no value in working for money beyond mere
survival, then that person will choose not to work for money. It seems to me
this choice is rational and deserves respect whenever there is a surplus of
food being produced by the nation. If there is a shortage of food being
produced by the nation it is a sign of either (1) mental illness, or (2)
laziness.

Harry Veeder