I don't feel good about forced charity

It can't be charity if it is not voluntary.
I can be threatened and coerced, but I refuse to be the bad guy and to be manipulated by guilt.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• charity
• force
• coercion
• freedom
• statism

[UnmaskedTuxedo]

@OneSmileyDude No, idiot, giving freely is equivalent to THEFT. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Donations are the recipients' STEALING, because they did not pay for it. By definition, a free lunch or something received without proper compensation is theft.

[infinitesimotel]

Good video btw, nice to hear someone whos pissed off and sees through the bullshit. But yes I hear you; its a kind of moral low ground, if you dont give to charity youre a bad person bla bla, its anti-citizen propaganda. Gvernment fucks the world up and we are supposed to pay for it.

[infinitesimotel]

@OneSmileyDude And charity is an industry. You think that if charity was honest, it would still exist? Besides, the management that run charities suck up most of it anyway. Its preying on peoples guilt and good will. Pretty disgusting.

[infinitesimotel]

@OneSmileyDude You wouldnt need charity if the governement wasnt opressive. Its a symptom of we make the economic mess and you people sort it out. That doesnt mean I dont help people, I dont believe I should be morally forced to give money out to something intrinsically not my fault but that of the state because of the way it creates the circumstances

[OneSmileyDude]

If you believe it is the states responsibility to pick your brothers and sisters up and brush the dirt off them when they fall you do not believe in your fellow man. Goodwill towards man? Is that what is playing out in the middle east? The moneychangers told of in the bible have monetized compassion. Compassion is not money nor is money a measure of equality. The fairness I hear spoke of is this a level of happiness you are trying to ensure with money? Try Jobs w personal value.

[OneSmileyDude]

If you are Christian, Buddhist....whatever no matter....if you are simply wise. It can be realized that if a source of happiness is giving...more precisely compassion. To have that taken away...high taxation, social programs, loss of liberties, .....the pursuit of happiness is oppressed. Too many times the pursuit of happiness is equated to a w2 or a title @ work. That is not what it meant and that is what is being stifled and what he is referring to imo.

[OneSmileyDude]

To put our collective free will into the hands of people who have as a life quest pursued a position of power is a suspect arrangement. Especially when power and money are substitutes for true happiness. Integrity of those in these positions of power is the only way this works as it was intended. Good Luck....

[OneSmileyDude]

Free will is the will of every person's spirit.

[OneSmileyDude]

Pathos in printed text. Haha. USSA...conjured up the demonized USSR. But then what? To give freely wo expecting in return is a source of happiness. To be taxed and to outsource that act compassion is no longer free will but oppression.

[OneSmileyDude]

United Socialist States of America....