So what's better for the world?

[wolfwings]

• Giving a single parent struggling with two jobs to make ends meet welfare.
  
• Handing the keys to an apartment to a homeless man for free indefinately.
  

Pick one.

Welcome to logic versus emotion when you start dealing with power-law statistical problems. Enjoy the headache.

Comments

[devidarkwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm all about the balance of emotion and logic. I guess I would have to examine the lives of both people, see who suffered mroe and who needs what more...

I'd only give the house to the homeless man if I could trust that he could keep it and turn his life around. Otherwise... then I'd give the mother welfare.

Arrrgh, my brain hurtses now! :3

Now, what about other issues...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...like the medical and police expenses the homeless man may acrue over his lifetime of homelessness? Someone that you would not give the free apartment to (as most would refuse to do) often times costs millions of dollars per chronically homeless person, compared to tens of thousands to simply house them indefinately. This can make housing them vastly cheaper, but that goes against almost everyone's 'moral' instinct. My own included. =^.^=

Re: Now, what about other issues...

[devidarkwolf.livejournal.com]

An argument like that would certainly sway me, if I was told before I made the decision! :P

Re: Now, what about other issues...

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

So take that savings and apply it toward welfare, and suddenly you can do both.