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TIL a woman designed a winter coat that homeless people could use to convert into a sleeping bag. While distributing the coats, a homeless woman said, "Your coats don’t matter, jobs matter. We need jobs, not coats." The designer then went to employ only homeless single parents at her factory. (abcnews.go.com)

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[–]GeneralQQ -42 ポイント-41 ポイント  (20子コメント)

Because desperate people should not offend your sensibilities. How could they do this?!

EDIT: Downvote more for disagreeing with a post that reeked of arrogance and lack of empathy.

[–]secpone 32 ポイント33 ポイント  (18子コメント)

Cute, but no.

Instead, no one should insult someone who's offering charity (used in the broad sense).

It's rude.

[–]Artemvlb [非表示スコア]  (14子コメント)

While your premise is just, try living on the street for years, jobless, penny grabbing, cold, hungry, because you can't get work. See if you'd be so kind after living so bitter.

[–]fitzydog [非表示スコア]  (2子コメント)

After being given something life altering like this, that could potentially save my life, I'd be speechless.

[–]GeneralQQ [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Easy to say when you've never been in that situation.

[–]cherak [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Save what life?

[–]theMeticulous [非表示スコア]  (9子コメント)

If you're jobless, and someone offers you a job, you should be grateful.

If you're penny-grabbing (or penniless) and someone offers you money, you should be grateful.

If you're cold, and someone offers you a warm coat, you should be grateful.

[–]Artemvlb [非表示スコア]  (5子コメント)

I'm saying you kind of lose your humanity. Have you worked with the homeless? They're broken.

[–]theMeticulous [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

I have, actually, though perhaps not as closely as many, including yourself. I'm not saying the homeless don't have it hard or that I even understand how hard it is being homeless. I'm just saying that if someone is doing something to help, they shouldn't be criticized because they could in someone's opinion be doing more or something else, and they should certainly not be told that what they are doing doesn't matter.

[–]horsenbuggy [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Unfortunately, many of the homeless (not all) have mental health issues.

[–]sam_hammich [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Not all homeless people are the same. Many people who have probably had it harder than she has would gladly take that coat and be thankful. Just because someone has endured hard times doesn't mean they should be given free license to treat everyone like shit. You do to others as you would have them do unto you. Some homeless people can be the nicest and most generous people you'll ever meet, it's about the person, not their circumstances.

[–]AniGamor [非表示スコア]  (1子コメント)

If they lose their humanity to the point of being an ingrate when somebody tries to help them, why should anyone try to help them?

[–]AAVE_Maria [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Because most charitable people are motivated by compassion, not a need to feed off of others' gratitude

[–]Alexplode [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

What if you aren't really THAT cold or hungry that you want to belittle yourself to others? What if you're more starved for humanity than food? Do you know what it's like?

[–]cherak [非表示スコア]  (1子コメント)

You're working on a lot of really awful assumptions that speak clearly to your experiences.

If you can offer decent employment, you should offer it to those who need it, because fundamentally you only live in the comfort you do but for the grace of others.

If you have money, you should give it to those in need, and be thankful for your circumstances.

If you can have warm clothing, you should give it to the cold.

If you have the means, you should give it to those who don't, and be thankful.

Jesus Christ, I mean for fuck's sake were you raised by narcissists? I'm not even Christian and I want to tell you to go read your Bible.

Stop what you're doing. It's horrible. Also, go talk to the homeless; if you don't learn something, you're lost.

[–]theMeticulous [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

I don't have any idea what you're talking about. I was speaking very clearly about a person's response to a charitable act, you're speaking about the act itself.

If you can have warm clothing, you should give it to the cold.

In the situation posted by OP, the woman had warm clothing, and was giving it to the cold, and was criticized for it

[–]Disappointing_Churro [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

cold

I'd be grateful for that motherfucking coat then.

[–]Alexplode [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

I don't think what the woman was actually insulting. She was just being a little unnecessarily blunt, but it's kinda understandable. The woman running the the whole thing obviously understood that, and she worked to fix the issue as best she could.

If I was homeless, getting basic food and coats every night from people who don't understand that these programs and funds could be better spent on long term solutions (eg. jobs, education, etc) that don't just assuage enough guilt to ignore the more systemic problems, I might be a little short with people too.

It's the whole: "give a man to fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime" situation.

[–]cherak [非表示スコア]  (1子コメント)

...y'all motherfuckers need Jesus.

Seriously. Do you think a person who sleeps on the floor, who fights for food, who dies from the cold, gives a flying fuck about pleasantries? Do you think they should? What is wrong with you? Have you ever spoken to a homeless person?

[–]sam_hammich [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

So because you've endured harsh circumstances, you have no obligation to treat a kind person with kindness? That's the kind of world you want to live in? If I'm cold and someone gives me a coat I fucking thank them.

[–]cherak [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

You're right.

Reddit's sure got a weird sense of Christmas spirit going on here. I think ego and narcissism's starting to rot their brains.