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Personally, I do not favor violating the Commandments, or advocating that such a thing be done, even for the sake of achieving a practical end or what some people would consider to be such.Here is the thing, private donations dont work, first of all most dont live by those principles, second to many second guess why someone is like that instead of showing the love of Christ to them, third many issues such as aging and not having enough are ongoing issues and bigger than most churchs or individuals can take care of. You address those issues and solve them and then I can accept that approach but till then we need things like Social Security and welfare. I agree that they could be better managed and that some do take advantage but the solution is to weed out those problems, not scrap the whole system.
If this were not a religious forum and this not a topic that was framed so as to have a religious dimension, of course the discussion might take a different course. I don't know what that other course might be, but that is academic since this is a Christian-oriented thread as it stands.
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