mornington-the-crescent: getawarrant:same-ole-me:Charity is good. There’s the practical reason
mornington-the-crescent: getawarrant:same-ole-me:Charity is good. There’s the practical reasons such as the fact that private charity is more efficient than government. And the fact that it allows you to allocate your resources to what causes you deem important. Take the middleman (government) out and give directly to what you believe in rather than pointing towards the government to take your money and your neighbor’s money and spend it where you want. It’s more efficient and you avoid any controversies and issues people tend to argue about when it comes to government spending. Another thing, it is good to be charitable. When you take away people’s resources by force, you no longer allow them to give from their heart. But being giving and helping others by your own free will is a good thing for us. It’s a win/win situation. The person on the receiving end is given what they need, and the person on the giving end gets to grow as a person. This matters. It’s important. Not to mention, charity doesn’t just apply to goods. We should be charitable in our conversations with one another. We should be charitable in our assumptions of others. Charity is a good virtue to have and absolutely vital for us to get along as people and grow together, but this kind of rhetoric makes it almost impossible to attain such a virtue because the virtue is at the cost of one’s own political ideology. Regardless where you fall on the map, do not the modern political landscape twist your worldview in such a way that you can no longer acknowledge what has always universally been understood as a good thing. Because it is a good thing. The fact that so much of what used to be covered by charities 100 years ago is now taken care of (in a more mediocre way) by the government, is part of why local communities are full of strangers who don’t know their next door neighbor. Back when the people you relied on where your neighbors, friends, family, and acquaintances, communities generally cared about each other. Now you’re lucky if you even know the name of the person who lives next door.Government bureaucrats somewhere across the country have no concern for you, they just care whether or not you tick the correct boxes to get a certain amount of money. When you have an actual community that cares about its members, they can help you meet your needs right then and there without you having to fill out form after form and then waiting 2-12 weeks to find out if you even qualify for assistance. While a local charity might not be as quick as your neighbors and friends, they are much more likely to actually care about members of the community and help out within a few days (depending on the issue at hand) than the government, while still having more funds available than your friends and neighbors for those tougher issues.When we disconnect ourselves from our community, we’re less likely to be concerned about others when they’re victims of crime since they’re not us and we don’t know them. And in return, others are less likely to care about us when we’re a victim of crime. When nobody cares about others being victims of crimes, we’re all worse off and easily divided.The federal government taking over so many of the concerns of the community has lead to our current state of not caring for each other even as we’ve become less racist and bigoted as a society. The fact that you can look at charity as a sign of systemic failure says a hell of a lot about your mindset. -- source link