Charity and Welfare

"Yes, I celebrate Dr. King's birthday,

but for only half of the day.

Half of the time he was talking about rights. I like that.

The other half of the time he was talking about entitlements. I don't like that."

~ Jack Simons, Vermont ~

VI. CHARITY AND WELFARE

1. Good feelings are engendered within through helping others, especially if one has been carefully conditioned since childhood to feel guilt about not doing so.

2. Since it is more blessed to give than to receive, the giver will often betray himself by thus rendering his own person the "more blessed" thereby.

"It is more blessed yet, to earn what one gets and keep it in a totally free society, than either to give or to receive." ~ Dirk the Sun Warrior ~

3. There are those who have said "Live simply so that others may simply live." This well-intentioned but bogus statement is based upon the false idea that there is a limited amount of wealth in the world. It is also based on the false assumption that quantities in mediocrity are somehow more desirable than smaller numbers in excellence. Evolutionary destiny is served through qualitation, not quantification. Maximum joyful manifestation for smaller numbers is superior to minimum meager manifestation for vast suffering multitudes. Awaken and fight back! We are not imbued with life merely to endure it.

4. The trend in evolution for three and a half billion years has not been towards simplicity and sameness, but towards complexity and diversity in the manifestation of individual organisms.

5. Those who violate natural law usually point to irrelevant, exceptional, or extraordinary examples in their vain attempts at self-justification. While it is important to look at individual instances, this should not be seen as an excuse to blindly disregard what is generally true.

"A few exceptions do not annihilate a mega-trend."

~ Dirk the Sun Warrior ~

6. The "morality" of any action must be judged as much for the effect in the long term as for any short term "intent." Working to alleviate unnecessary suffering for any living thing is a worthwhile and noble task, but only if that is what is really accomplished. Charity has no moral justification if it will increase the need for charity. In that instance, it is effectively a crime against society.

7. Indiscriminate charity usually leads to the perpetuation of traits having no survival value, because it gives artificial sustenance to weakness or degeneracy, and thereby reverses the process of evolution. Often what seems cruel in the short term is kind in the long.

8. Those who refer to the "unfortunate" or "underprivileged" seem completely detached from the idea that, in a relatively free society, an individual's behavior could possibly have any connection whatsoever with his situation, or that his viability as a life form could possibly have any connection with his behavior.

9. If one form of weakness is allowed to feed at the expense of strength, then this must "logically" be allowed to all forms of weakness. Militant "philanthropy" seeks ultimately to destroy us all with sheer beneficence by undermining the evolutionary destiny of mankind.

10. Whoever originated the idea that it is an obligation, or even a worthwhile goal, for society to use coercion to collectively alleviate human "misery" and the resultant poverty, was one of the first dire enemies of evolving life to appear on Earth.

11. A free society is a society based upon natural order. In a free society unproductive individuals are not sustained at the expense of productive individuals or vice versa. Besides any question of liberty itself, the prosperity and full employment in a Libertarian society render social programs unnecessary in the first place. Ongoing social welfare has never worked anywhere it has been tried. The number of recipients invariably increases, it never decreases. One can help others only by teaching them to help themselves.

12. The riff-raff in any country will invariably seek to vote themselves a free handout at the expense of producing individuals. This will always be referred to as "justice" of some kind. In a country where the injustice of welfare becomes firmly established, members of a more employable group may attempt to keep members of a less employable group from voting because they do not wish to be victimized via the voting booth, through "the right to do wrong." Let us note however, that they choose this method rather than trying to get rid of the injustice of the welfare itself, because even they enjoy stealing from the most productive members of society.

13. There are those who live on welfare who sit in apartments all day watching television while others work. We are told that they are too "discouraged" to work. This discouragement however, never seems to sap their energy enough to prevent many of them from producing four or five children who inherit, are taught, and grow up to manifest this same discouragement.

14. The welfare state has been compared to a mother pig with sucklings. This is a good sentiment, but is actually an insult to baby porkers because, although adult pigs do have disgraceful manners and make the most extraordinary and wonderful sounds when they eat, as a species they are not intrinsically parasitic and eventually outgrow their dependency at a normal age.

15. Self-sustaining individuals who support a system of deficit spending for social welfare will usually do so for one of two reasons. One is that they have been taught the false idea that we can never have economic stability because nobody really knows what causes the business cycles which result in unemployment. The other reason is a simple lack of confidence in the continuity of their own viability. They want the welfare machinery in place to "protect" them in case of emergency. As we know, such "emergency" usually occurs because of the economic cycle, which ironically is caused only by the system of fiat currency used for the deficit spending in the first place.

16. Notice that those who speak overmuch about "brotherhood" in connection with society, often live or seek to live at the expense of others, or at least to earn their living as a champion of those who do.

17. It is astounding how naive is the young brainwashed collectivist who seeks endlessly to find better ways to "use the money" confiscated from those who earn it, as though he doesn't in any way associate money with work - the hours and days of people's lives. How glibly he allocates the hopes and dreams of others to the "revolution in human consciousness" and in so doing, how foolishly he imagines himself to be "rebelling against the insensitivity of the Establishment." How arrogantly he laughs at those "ignorant reactionaries" who refer to him as a mere "dupe."

18. Whenever one speaks out against the unworkability of welfare in any situation where a noticeable percentage of the recipients happen to be of a particular racial or ethnic group, let us note the almost reflexive reaction of Socialists to make accusations of "bigotry." Character assassination from those who condone government theft at least shows moral consistency.

19. No nation, or the people in it, have ever become prosperous in a climate of moral relativity or because of guilt ridden drones sharing what they earn "in a spirit of brotherhood," but only because of inspired individuals striving for themselves and their families in a climate of individual liberty.

20. The "compassionate" have no moral right to feed the professional hungerers using stolen money, or even earned money, unless reproductive sterilization is made prerequisite to the option of receiving sustenance on a continuing basis. The sustenence option must be offered by private charity, not by government.

21. Be "greedy," but individually. Restrict this normal self-interest only at the point of dishonesty. Demand that your government respect your natural right to liberty. Not only the quality of life, but in the long term, life itself, depends on it.