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Originally Posted by Platapus
There is a right way and a wrong way to help the homeless. The wrong way is to violate an ordinance. I am sure there were multiple legal ways this couple could have helped the homeless. But for some reason they choose not to do it and instead decided to violate and continue to violate a law.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. However good intentions does not trump laws.
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Laws are only for providing a judicial recourse for meting out a punishment when the law is broken or ignored. I'm sure there are plenty of people who hold barbecues in the park in question and they probably share the food with friends and relatives and maybe even the odd stranger. Should they be hammered by the long arm of the law too? Likely not as long as uncle Barney doesn't take a dump in the bushes.
If the homeless have no right to enjoy the park in their own way (getting a free meal from a generous couple of retired residents) then the law becomes hypocritical. Kind of like your signature wouldn't you agree? The only people who should be infracted in this instance is the ones who decided to defecate in a public place which seems to be the crux of the matter. So a couple of indigents chose to ruin it for their peers and the city decided to punish all of them by demanding a cease and desist order against the two benefactors in order to run all the hobos out at once.
Not exactly the Christian attitude by any stretch of the imagination. Just more asphalt for hell's thoroughfare.
