Lately I have been pondering something. Over a dinner discussion, I more or less got accused for being cheap and lacking in morals, as I refuse to donate money to charity, even though I would have the means.
For me it is a philosophical question more than anything else, really. I am just against most types of charity.
People have been giving money to charity for hundreds, if not thousands of years. This has yet to solve any real problems. Quite the opposite, charity is a way for the middle/upper class to buy themselves off of moral responsibility. Much like the salvation of soul letters so popular by the church before Martin Luther.
"So the world is a mess, but I do not have to care about that on a political level because I gave $100 to the Red Cross."
Pretty cheap, is it not? $100 in return for not having to care about the world at large.
But what impact will these $100 have?
Imagine if all of the millions of people who do charity stopped, and instead demanded of their politicians to sort things out. It is like the old saying, evil does not happen because there are so many evil persons in the world, evil happens because the good persons do nothing.
If one believe in the christian religion, I could bet Satan was the founder of UNICEF, Red Cross and so on.
I hope I make some sort of sense here.
PS: I do give money to projects I believe in, albeit on another scale and level.
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