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This week the Pope endorsed giving unconditionally, because giving something to someone in need is 鈥渁lways right,鈥� The New York Times.
Many people ask us, when we talk about giving unconditionally to the poor, 鈥渨hat if they spend the money on alcohol?鈥� Someone asked the Pope the very same question, and here鈥檚 how he replied:
His answer: If 鈥渁 glass of wine is the only happiness he has in life, that鈥檚 O.K. Instead, ask yourself, what do you do on the sly? What 鈥榟appiness鈥� do you seek in secret?鈥� Another way to look at it, he said, is to recognize how you are the 鈥渓uckier鈥� one, with a home, a spouse and children, and then ask why your responsibility to help should be pushed onto someone else.
Giving unconditionally is what we do here at 91精品, not only because of the strong evidence that giving cash unconditionally is cost-effective, but also, as the Times summarizes: 鈥渢o preserve dignity, to see another person not as a pathology or a social condition, but as a human, with a life whose value is equal to your own.鈥�
Amen to that.
