Restaurant Forced To Stop Feeding The Homeless After Complaints From Nearby Businesses

[Demo_Chris]

63. I simply asked myself how I would respond if someone did this to me...

These people didn't lease a property next to a soup kitchen, and they damn well aught to have a say in the matter before someone puts one in and runs everyone else out of business. And no, saying "It's for the homeless" is not some panacea that trumps every other consideration -- including the law -- and particularly when the owner of the restaurant hasn't shown the slightest interest in working with his neighbors and arriving at a solution. It's not heartlessness on the part of the surrounding businesses that have complained, it's rational self interest. They don't want to go out of business, and they don't see why they should bear the cost for someone else's self-righteous and self-congratulatory nonsense.

Let me cut to the chase: Your "moral code," no matter how special or divinely inspired you think it is, does not give you license to infringe on other people's rights and property. This applies whether you are Hobby Lobby trying to deny women their rights, or this restaurant trying to feed the poor.