Moral problems

Ok. So living in a huge city like this is pretty great from many points of view. Today I was in this incredibly big library, my favorite store Decathlon is placed at lots of places all over the city and there are a big range of cultural stuff like movies and theater. Unfortunately there is also a backside. Here and there you can see so called SDF:s (sans domicile fixe), homeless people. The beggars are even more common and range from young mothers with small children to old men with filthy dogs. Well, the thing is, should you give them money or shouldn't you? I have no idea how much they make in a day. Someone once told me that street musicians actually make very much. I guess that if you give them money, in a way, you encourage it and people might be less persistent in searching for a real job? On the other hand I can't imagine anyone doing that if they had any choice whatsoever. I mean, when I worked for IM, trying to get people to give money to this aid organization, people didn’t look at me like I was a worthy human. That’s the best way I can describe it. It’s a horrible feeling when everyone avoids meeting your eyes like you had the plagues. Like you’re so far below them that you don’t even exist in their world. And then I was “begging” for a good cause, I guess it must be even worse when you’re just begging for your own survival. Maybe I got my answer there, or what do you think?

Another thing that concerns France and that I have been reading about is a woman called Rachida Dati. She was the first woman from a non-European country to be chosen to a key position in the French government. As I have understood it, she was sort of an idol in the poor suburban areas here in France. She worked her way through her entire education as both her parents where poor immigrants and she was the second child of twelve. Recently, she gave birth to a baby girl. She refuses to say who the father is and says she’s going to raise the child herself. Ok, now to the point. The wind blows hard at the top and just five days after the birth she was back at work. It is not an easy thing to reach the position she has had, especially not being a woman and especially not having a foreign background. She doesn’t have few enemies and I suppose she had to defend her ground. However here in France there has been a huge debate about the whole thing. I think that a French mother has the right to 16 weeks of maternity leave. Women all over France are in a rage and say that many bosses will not allow them to stay home that long now with reference to Dati. Right, a lot of background for a short question. Should women be made to act certain ways because it gets back on all of us otherwise? I guess in Sweden the problem is the opposite. One could ask the question about whether women should be home with their children less. After all, that women put more energy into raising the children than the men is a big reason to why all of us still get less paid and have fewer top jobs. Well what do you think?