Do you give to charity? What are your opinions on it? Anything goes, from small change in the hands of a homeless person to some campaign to fund cancer therapy for some kid to, I dunno, some foundation supporting kids in Africa to refugees of war in Syria and so on. Me, to set the discussion in the right direction and reason I started this thread at all: I give regularly to a person in need. Don't ask me how I got in contact with said person, that's easy, they are everywhere. And once you do like I do, that is, give, you quickly realize a few things, some on the philosophical realm but most of them just reality checks: First and foremost we're hardwired by 100s of thousands of years of evolution if not millions to care for members of your tribe. That's because until not very far back and a glimpse on the geological scale, "your tribe" meant 100 members at best. You'd depend on them as much as they'd depend on you so if one was in trouble, you had a hefty 1% chance less of making it yourself. Therefore it was both practically required by you to help he or she and at the same time not much of a nuisance since it was just one. But in today's world, your city has 1 million members at least. Of which a lot require help. And then there's your enlarged tribe, country, which has 100s of millions of which a hefty percent require help. And then there's the whole fucking world with all it's neverending misery and conflicts which continuously creates a lot of persons needing help. So your capacity to help as a single person is quickly overran if you don't limit it to the original idea: some 100-ish members of your tribe of which at most one or two need significant help hopefully not for very long. So this is the practical reality check of charity. You're physically limited to how much you give which means some limitation on who you give also. Next I'll delve into some philosophical considerations of charity.
Here's how I see it: persons in need seem to be broken in some way. I'm referring now to homeless and quasi-homeless, not as much to war refugees, hunger in Africa or cancer / diseased persons. Although the considerations might be extended to them: I mean like it's not my fault you were born in a broken family, country or a broken genetic genealogy. Which is EXACTLY my point. Evolution is ruthless and relentless but it's entire idea is "select the fittest". In human terms, when you are born in some family of reasonable capabilities, it was traditional since like forever and even today that you kinda want your children to marry into a family of similar capabilities. It's not the end of the world if they're a little worse but you don't want the ugly, poor and diseased brought into your family lineage. Not even one of them let alone all three and some more. So what to do with the unfortunate? Ugly, poor, diseased, stupid and devoid of resources? Let them expire as nature intended or help? Bring them into your family of good looking healthy well-off smart people? To do what? At least during antiquity or even today in the rural country side you'd have them doing some useful work for the support: cut wood, swipe lawn, do something. I'm not talking slavery or servitude but for funk's sake, every healthy relation of the type "I give you some money" demands something in return.
Massive immigration as an rescue mission, rescue the third world. Globalist are such philanthropist. Broaden and simplify the economic system.
%% Some that never gave would not change my experience of regular giving; nor would a lack of Paul Tudor Jones foundation + Bill + Melinda Gates Foundation change my experience. Glad to see them do it. Good thing for you, + me plenty of people dont share your pessimistic short term view of ''diseased , poor stupid '' LOL Meaning what??NOT that we want to be those those LOL. That simple redneck lookin' that drives a poor stupid looking poor pick up truck + the poor blind guy[blind in one eye + partially blind in the other] WOULD i give to those 2?? Looks like they need it, especially the mostly blind guy that actually runs in to walls. But they never asked me Sam Walton in the poor looking pick up+ Larry Mint Hite mostly blind + runs in to walls. Your are exactly right, in that Larry Mint Hite's problem with sight is not my problem. God bless them. I like what one ex gambler told me , '' i dont give to lazy bums, to bums that panhandle; he told me ''Murray I tell those bums ''hey buddy, you work this side of the street + I'll work the other side'' LOL