3. Charities forced to ration food in the world's most liveable city

Charities forced to ration food in the world's most liveable city

Yeah. How can you blame them?

Things are also pretty bad in my state. It's hard to get food from charities and I occasionally eat from dumpsters. I'm eating from dumpsters less in the winter, because it's sometimes too cold to troll around the city at 4am. Hey, at least I'm not in Queensland, the negative overnight temperatures here keep food 'edible' in the dumpsters. /s

I'm sometimes worried that the police will stop me for bin diving/dumpster diving but it's not a genuine concern. In my relatively small city, I doubt most reasonable officers would hold me and my bag of scraps for charges.

I can't blame others for committing crimes for food. I live alone; I don't have any family or any friends. There are many blessings and curses from a life of isolation. My live would be unbearably horrible, if I were forced to inflict my personal misery upon others.

I'd never commit more than a victimless crime for food. Stealing from the self-checkout by tolling expensive items as 'potatoes' is hardly stealing, in my twisted mind.

I've read things like Camus's The Stranger and Kafka's The Hunger Artist but I can understand others who might commit violent crimes from hunger. I've 'starved' in the past and I'm certain to 'starve' again. There'll always be individuals who find themselves in abominably worse circumstances than I the conditions I live within.

It's an appalling social issue - I'm happy to be an outsider. I wish there were more I could do, just like you. I think charity is like investing in a society and a community which is valuable. Seeing people isolated and marginalized makes me feel like our whole society is completely worthless.

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