Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Don't feed the animals

A city that bases it's very being on drawing as many people as possible to it's attractions has suddenly developed a very skewed vision of humanity to go with it's pre-existing skewed vision of reality. I give you Orlando, Florida, ladies and gentlemen, a city of magical kingdoms, greenery and more lakes than you can shake a stick at. And a city where it's now illegal to feed the homeless. That's right. In a city where generally being nice to people should be the norm, you can get thrown in jail and put on trial simply for, well, being nice to people.

Giving aid to those in need is a most-cherished human quality. Or at least it used to be, apparently. So now are parks are like zoos, except I'd be willing to bet that in Orlando it's perfectly fine to feed squirrels. Just not the people. Well fuck that. You can't strip people of their humanity. Well, I guess you can try, but it won't fucking work.

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