I see, specific things. Maybe to be able to help your fellow man without fear of reprisal? Yes, people have been arrested and at least temporarily encarcerated for feeding the homeless.
I think the fear is that as more and more regulation comes into play we may end up in a similar situation to China under Mao or Russia. How far is too far? Did you watch the video on the Battle of the Beanfield? All that violence because the councils didn't want a festival becoming permanent.
that's funny, I have never been afraid of that. Seems like the people who make that claim are often running an illegal commercial kitchen, which does not seem like a big deal until they give a bunch of homeless people without insurance food poisoning. I think I had a Spanish teacher in high school make me watch that one. There are lots of ways to feed the homeless.
Often the homeless end up feeding themselves from bins. Who's to say that won't give them food poisoning? Things are rarely straight forward and simple, there's always more to stories than meets the eye. That's why I feel every point of view should be heard. It's been informative reading all the comments on here. They are all valid points, even if they do disagree with each other.
when you get involved you become responsible. There was a story of a guy who built a set of stairs in a park on his own. Some were upset the city was going to remove them. But obviously those stairs were not up to code and someone would be injured on them, then who pays for that?
There was outcry because his stairs were only a few hundred dollars and the stairs the city then put in cost 100 times as much, but no one is going to slip down those and die very easily.