There’s still a lingering depression when we consider that heroes like Schindler can backslide, or make stupid decisions, or make cruel ones (like abandoning a spouse) after having done something great and good. There has to be an antidote to that despair. Or what is the point of doing good in the world if it can be so easily lost?
Tag: charity
Charity, not Theft and Slavery
It’s hard to imagine, but I’ve read that back during the barbaric era of government, people in need actually relied on government to steal money to pay for the things they needed, or to force people to provide those things at their own expense against their will! Food, housing, and medical care were considered to be legitimate reasons to steal and enslave!
Voluntary Law and Order
People are not all the same, and they make different choices because they have different values, circumstances, and levels of understanding. Sometimes those choices are peaceful and wise; sometimes they are not. So what are the best ways to promote good choices and cooperation while preventing and providing resolution for conflict?
Words Poorly Used #103 — Charity
It is frustrating trying to assist charities. Like all organizations, they have pockets of management dysfunction, pockets of people problems. This is also the reason why big government bureaucracies have so many fail points, many egregious fail points.
What’s Wrong With Free Money?
One of the scams pushed by the soulless parasites is the notion of “universal basic income” or “UBI”: the idea that, just as a result of existing, everyone is magically entitled to a certain amount of prosperity, income and wealth. Unfortunately, this political Tooth Fairy approach seems to work well on the economically ignorant, which includes most people. After all, it sounds so nice—so caring and generous. What could possibly be destructive or malicious about giving everyone free stuff?
A Small Glimpse of What Could Be
How many inventions weren’t invented, how many discoveries weren’t discovered, how many works of art–music, painting, whatever–were never made, because of the vast amounts of human time and energy that have been stolen by the giant parasite known as “government”?
“Diversity”
Recognizing the disastrous nature of forced diversity isn’t justification for government “borders,” though, because forced division is just as harmful as forced diversity. Government’s involvement can turn any idea into garbage.
Have A Little Pride
Never ask someone to buy your product or be your friend as if they would be performing some great act of charity in doing so. As an alternative, get clear on your own value and come back with a proposition that’s based on the conviction that you have more to offer people than a mere plea for unmerited favor.
Editor’s Break 023 – Is Volunteerism Bad, Wrong, and Counterproductive? (7m)
Editor’s Break 023 is a correction to the previous episode on charity being wrong and counterproductive, with a look at the nobility and beneficence of many forms of volunteerism.
Editor’s Break 022 – Is Charity Bad, Wrong, and Counterproductive? (9m)
Editor’s Break 022 is a look at charity and why Skyler is leaning toward the belief that charity is bad and counterproductive. He contrasts it with trade or exchange.