What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[lumberjack_jeff]

402. I don't think that "throwing money" is the right frame.

The issue isn't more money vs less money. The issue is libertarian "freedom of choice" vs paternalistic "I know what you need".

Giving money to TTW didn't create positive change. NSA donations in fact didn't prevent, or even meaningfully defer, the tragedy of the outcome for which they were solicited. She's on the street and the dog is bouncing from shelter to shelter.

I think that no amount of money can mitigate bad choices. People make bad choices for a variety of reasons, but society can't always create good outcomes when giving complete deference to compromised judgment.

What was needed in this situation was for TTW to give the dog to a good shelter/rescue, then move to a decent no-dogs apartment she could afford. When the only sensible/reasonable/sane solutions to a problem are all considered off the table because they're mean or heartless or insensitive or "mansplaining"...
... it's all a big Kobayashi Maru.

The only choices for people who faced with that choice (donate or not) are to ignore the misery or to participate in extending it. Sensitive, kind, compassionate critics of that attitude might denigrate it by calling us judgmental. Fair enough, but the antonym of good judgment is stupidity.