Some people need and deserve more help than others. Some people get sick or fall on hard times and they dont have any to give. We should help people who are less fortunate.

If you are well however, or if you have resources you should be strongly encouraged to give. If you have and dont give then you should be looked down on by the community until you do.

Dont always be so quick to judge people though. Maybe someone eats but doesnt help cook....maybe they just spent the last two days treating sick people at CALM, helped carry water or set up a filtration system, or brought the setup for another kitchen. Some people are obviously drainbows, others just need to be recruited to help, and others already have worked hard enough for what their means or health allow.

You can't help those who's sole desire is to take advantage of the oppertunites in a non hieracracy enviorment of open love and giving.-the rainbow gathering,particularly if its tobacco,weed,food or lending hands when help is truly "needed" .I see them every year and they have had the audasity to lable me "lame" for not giving.They only know how to take. These people are a more pittentence to the meaningful gesture.What can be done is absoleutely nothing except that hopefully one day the nomadic lifestyle will set into their minds and they realize the importance of what they could have done vs expectation.I simply ignore them most times especially when they are'nt in the lovin you mode,feed me crap,they are obvious,but I treat them as any brother and sister and govern what I'll do if they just want to leave without a simple thank you or a desire to do something if its needed.My heart is my home and it only exsist by those who build to its foundation.Occasionally there are ones that may need vegan needs or an ingrediant or two not found elsewhere-but to here them say whats for dinner,can you spare change,got any "good" tobacco,I simply can not and will not give into this expection that its for brotherly love.I've been graced with 3am we love you groups,brownies and candle vigils and drumming to you.The abundance I find is what goes around comes around.
I hope this helps,and by the way my reasons for being at the gatherings is that our society frowns upon open love,feeding the homeless and a host of other simple problems resolved at Rainbow Gatherings.Alcohol has its own source too....A-camp, and we all are brothers and sisters that co-exsist.They don't like drainbows as well either.