>>Should be whole social policy downgraded to crowd pleasing due to 'pragmatic consideration'?
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>>I've not seen anybody suggest that.
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>>If you drop piece of meat here and there then at the end you will be out of meat and ever-hungry crowd (fostered to expect free meat only) will eat you anyway.
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>>Feeding zoo animals carries an expectation that a) the supply of food is inexhaustible and b) the animals are contained so they can't get at you. Of course that is a completely different proposition from large numbers of marginalized people who are legally entitled to roam your street and may be feeling like Robin Hood.
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>So? If you provide free food to large number of free roaming people, would not their number increase to unsustainable (in food terms) levels capping the idea with inevitable end?

Example - Many so-called countries in Africa that are in the constant state of begging/stealing/killing. Charitable organizations only increase the suffering.