Aren't you the one under-estimating people? If you put out food for the bears, does that make the bears more independent, more diligent foragers, or do they take advantage of the food you put out?
Do they then eat less than their fill? Leave any behind?
Or do the bears, once habituated, even start arriving before feeding time to get a better share?
*Bears* adapt, maximize their advantage, and even plan.I think we agree on what actually happens with bears. So, the question becomes "What makes you think people are less intelligent, less able to plan their affairs than bears?"
(And in fact, in a free enterprise society, each person maximizing his own good is a *good* thing--maximizes the "greater good". Each person maximizing the yield from his garden (free enterprise) benefits the person and the whole society--there's more food. Not true under socialism, where, rather than produce, people are encouraged to take from other people's gardens.)
The fact they're doing it means they applied and were accepted, which shows they not only wanted and preferred it, but sought it out.
at least not "normal" people. Do you think it's fun? Does
Why do the bears keep coming back? Are they "happier" on public assistance?
But you're assuming, again.
I see the poor on a daily basis. They drive newer cars than I, and have satellite links to giant TVs in their Section-8 subsidized houses. And they're watching that TV, often.
I see their trash bins, full of beer and soda cans, cigarette, convenience and take-out food boxes, costing 5x the cost of simple home-cooking.
Some are in my extended family.
Poor people make poor choices.
Cheers, James Arthur