To Live Morally is to Live Uncomfortably.
20 Monday Jan 2014
Posted Quick Thoughts, Thoughts
in20 Monday Jan 2014
Posted Quick Thoughts, Thoughts
in13 Friday Sep 2013
Posted Economics, Giving Back, Miscellaneous
inNormally I do not give anything to homeless people with two exceptions for when: (1) I am having a most excellent day and I just feel like sharing my life high and (2) the people are being what I tell myself is deserving: playing music, helping people with directions, or otherwise being productive. But two days ago I tried to change this philosophy when, while sitting at a red light, I tried to give a homeless man $1. I was thinking about how I was driving a van full of food for the needy and how my job is (partly) to help the homeless. And how in my personal life I ignore the homeless people I meet. I wanted to give a dollar. I wanted to do something different. Continue reading