Originally Posted by
maviskw
Pope Francis said when you waste food, you are stealing from the poor. You don't have to be Catholic to agree with that. And throwing away a quilt that is half finished or you don't like has the same meaning for me. You're taking warmth from someone who might be freezing. Someone will finish these uglies and they will get a lot of love.
And you don't have to be a heathen to disagree with it.
The "people are starving in Africa" line never made me clean my plate as a child, and the "you're taking warmth from someone who might be freezing" line is not going to guilt-trip me into passing along completely unacceptable fruits of my own labor. It's not
stealing anything from anybody.