New Orleans Mayor Issues 'Desperate SOS'

a similar effect happens with humane societies. they round up all dogs, not just problem dogs as in the old days, and put them in one place.

then they discover a population crisis when one place can't support all the dogs they've rounded up, where there's no population crisis when they're in the original environment, doing their thing to acquire a home by being cute or being friendly or looking helpless.

vast neutering programs are begun that never were necessary before; breeding bans are instituted.

don't round up dogs that aren't problem dogs; don't put them in one place when they can fend for themselves.

you just make them helpless.

in the case of people, helpless people then acquire dignity not by helping themselves or helping others but by lashing out at their helplessness, which makes it worse.

that instinct to acquire dignity works fine on their own.

officials like helpless people.

it seems like a good first step to them.

it never works.

goodness that goes public turns into the worst sort of evil.

because doing good is mostly deep knowledge of the individual case and lots of hard work.

even then it's retrospectively that you find out if your efforts have done good.

leave as much as possible up to the object of your beneficience.

In a statement to CNN, Nagin said: "This is a desperate SOS. Right now we are out of resources at the convention center and don't anticipate enough buses. We need buses. Currently the convention center is unsanitary and unsafe and we're running our of supplies."