A friend of mine was telling me I should try to get food stamps and unemployment, and he thinks I am an self-righteous idiot for not wanting them. I consider myself employed.
My reasoning for not taking the handouts is that the stuff is there for people who need it, and if I need it I will take it, but I don't so I won't--and besides if less people used it, less would be taken from taxpayers to pay for it. He claims this is stupid and pointlessly self-righteous and everybody is going to be selfish anyway, so I'm hurting myself for nothing, and besides the Big Brother is just going to keep it anyway and so on...
So then he suggested if I really want to set an example, I should go get food stamps and unemployment and donate it all to charity. Then the money isn't sitting getting interest for "evil fat cats" and it does real good for people. I thought this was an interesting proposition. On the one hand, I am fraudulently siphoning money out of taxpayers pockets. On the other hand, I help people in a way I couldn't otherwise afford to do.
I'm leaning on not doing it for ethical and legal reasons, but I'm curious what people think about it. I mean, after all, Robin Hood was nothing more than an outright crook, right?
-Max
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