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Have I misunderstood Libertarianism?
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RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism?
(April 15, 2010 at 9:46 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: People can be good and charitable, and people can be greedy dicks. I wouldn't want to have the general well-being of our poor be left to how charitable a person is feeling.

Especially when most people who give to charity give it to churches who in turn make beautiful cathedrals and molest little boys.

I've been wondering... is it exclusively little boys? I can't see why it would be... but is there any evidence that they are not alone targeted?
Adrian Wrote:Charity is done for the sake of being good, at least it is where I come from.

Charity is often done for the purpose of politics and reputation. It gives them more political cards if and when their ethics are called into question.

Quote:Evidence for people giving more if they can afford to give more? Again, human kindness, our compassion, our mindset to always try to do good things.

If so, then whence come criminals?

leo Wrote:
Quote:I don't think it's any coincidence that so many multi-millionaires are philanthropists.

Yeah, because they know that they can get better tax breaks that way, their accountant told them. Sure some will do it out of the kindness out of their hearts, but that sounds to me a much to volatile method of getting funds for problems that are systematic.

Often this.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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Messages In This Thread
Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by padraic - April 15, 2010 at 12:54 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Minimalist - April 15, 2010 at 2:10 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by padraic - April 15, 2010 at 4:02 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Tiberius - April 15, 2010 at 7:44 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by leo-rcc - April 15, 2010 at 8:48 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Eilonnwy - April 15, 2010 at 9:12 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Tiberius - April 15, 2010 at 9:19 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Tiberius - April 15, 2010 at 9:13 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by leo-rcc - April 15, 2010 at 9:33 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Tiberius - April 15, 2010 at 9:40 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by leo-rcc - April 15, 2010 at 10:22 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Eilonnwy - April 15, 2010 at 9:29 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Eilonnwy - April 15, 2010 at 9:46 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Violet - April 18, 2010 at 2:29 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by padraic - April 18, 2010 at 12:26 am
RE: Have I misunderstood Libertarianism? - by Eilonnwy - April 18, 2010 at 9:08 am

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