Why did the Greeks favor beggars so much? In the Odyssey, it

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Probably because he was Ionian and it was a contrast of Greek culture and Semetic culture. If the Greeks placed more importance on helping the unfortunate it's an testament that they are capable of not being given over entirely to selfishness and impulse desires.

It's probably also a relative time thing. Today what you think of when you hear beggars in first world countries are people dressed up poor and then you see people deliver them food 2x a day and they drive away in their new Prius.

Back then, I'm imagining a lot of these beggars are elderly people who perhaps had homes destroyed by having children die in accidents/wars perhaps and they lost most everything, or maimed soldiers who couldn't continue in their trade. It's easier to see why you'd place value on beggars in that light to me.

probably because they are a people genetically incapable of paying their debt.

It probably has to do with xenia, which is a pretty major theme of the Odyssey.

>>9189039
Isn't it that begging has always been a good thing until a few hundred years ago? There were begging orders in europe ("mendicant orders"), because the ascetic aspect of a life in poverty was regarded as a good thing

>>9189039
Because even the ancient Greeks understood that NEETs are the true master race.

Stop blocking my sun wagie

>>9189054
>Today what you think of when you hear beggars in first world countries are people dressed up poor and then you see people deliver them food 2x a day and they drive away in their new Prius.

>he can say this

Being a cozy NEET in the first world must be very easy when millions elsewhere have to pimp their children to feed a family.

>>9189039
Ancient Greeks were socialists

>>9189208
Yea but you can't make that comparison since we're measuring two centers of the world in different periods. If you want to compare third worlds sure, but instead of pimping they're kids to put food on the table, these ancient peoples were concerned about surviving through the winter with an unfavorable harvest.

>>9189054
>contrast of Greek culture and Semetic culture

I don't see it that way, since the Semites placed great importance on hospitality, like the Greeks. It may be a Mediterranean trait.

>>9189263
Depends on the peoples and time period imo. That was pretty vague. Semetic peoples were anything in the Levant and a lot of people use that term for an even broader area, Iranians and any indo-europeans in the Middle East.

>>9189054
This, people were actually poor back then. The Ancient Greeks were civilized, watching your kin starve in the streets is a crime against humanity.

Watching niggers starve in the streets today is a blessing upon humanity. That's why we have EBT and social security. I'd walk over a stack of dead niggers before handing them a cent without government coercion.

you're misreading "buggers"

>>9190089
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