Fake Solidarity is not Charity

While some are “philosophizing ‘til it hurts”, others are being generous with their time and earnings:

Gaudiani said Americans give twice as much as the next most charitable country, according to a November 2006 comparison done by the Charities Aid Foundation. In philanthropic giving as a percentage of gross domestic product, the U.S. ranked first at 1.7 percent. No. 2 Britain gave 0.73 percent, while France, with a 0.14 percent rate, trailed such countries as South Africa, Singapore, Turkey and Germany.

Those imagining their bloated governments can convince their taxpayers that their usury goes to something they imagine is some sort of “collectivized compassion” are fooling themselves. Thinking that ones’ own effort is not required is obviously causing less personal effort from taking place and even at that level, less empathy itself as people have it proved to them that anything and everything is someone else’s problem, if it isn’t the state’s problem.

Those famously telling themselves of the compassion and decency they imaging their state has need to understand how even this form of passive “humanism courtesy the state” is a delusion and a sort of placebo to make up the difference between the ‘humanists’ they think they are and the emotionally needy people they really are.

- with thanks to Martin