Should charity be state-enforced though? Others have discussed the difference between stumbling and bumbling, but should charity be reliant on the goodwill of others or their taxes?
Does charity breed weakness?
Jayden Reed
Ian Long
Due to the failure of the incompetent state-run Veterans Administration.
Leo Powell
Do you even know what you're talking about? The VA is created to embezzle a massive amount of money under false pretexts while expanding the governement-controlled apparatus and dependencies, mostly glorified welfare "work" for your typical government bureaucrat types, who will always be expected to follow government agendas and be dependable voting block sources. A scant amount of the money actually goes to VETERANS.
Alexander Davis
Not necessarily but yes. In socialist countries, the system breeds low IQ people, generally speaking, and punishes performance. In a capitalist system, everything operates by the rules of Darwinism and those who are capable of gaming the system rise to the top (Jews usually win the most in these systems because they favour psychopaths and sociopaths). Charity has a similar function to socialism and thus it breeds weakness but not absolutely. 'Not absolutely' because you can still have a quality people who are down and out temporarily. The best kind of charity, ultimately, is localised charity where you help the people in your community. In a sane world, we wouldn't help criminals and losers so you wouldn't really have a problem.
Nathan Ortiz
I think many of Jesus Christ's statements can be construed that yes, we need to engage in charity. Not just for the poor's benefits but for our own. God Himself was certainly charitable beyond imagination towards us.
The parable of the sheep and goats makes it very clear that Christians are to assist other Christians.
Carter Nelson
In good doses, no. But then it goes too far, way beyond the homogeneous high true community and then everything just falls apart where charity actively makes your community a worse place than better originally.
Carter Bennett
This idea ignores the acts of randomness in the universe. Some people could genuinely get dealt a bad hand for the time being. Everyone deserves a chance to improve. Naturally those who refuse to try and make their situation better deserve nothing.
Isaac Bennett
That's up to each man to decide that for himself, no one can give you the answer to that
Matthew Murphy
Sorry for my bad English in advance but the main difference between welfare and charity is that welfare in socialism is like a law. You are not given welfare because you are a fuck up but because it belongs to you, while some see through this shit and feel embarassed and want to get out of it, many don't. With charity it's different because you have to take it, it's not deserved or belongs to you but it's an actual helping hand.
It's mainly psychological but it matters a lot. Welfare = taken and redistributed by force, giver feels robbed, taker feels normal. Charity = voluntary, giver does a good deed, taker is below, being taken care by someone.
Carson Fisher
>money from (((BASED RICH MAN WHO TOTALLY DIDNT STEAL))) makes them good!
I usually expect to meet new level of retardation on r/nupol/ but holy shit you're really broke the bottom.
Thet's what they've done in USSR. Are your commeh?