I hesitate to call charity outright "immoral", but it gives me the uneasy feeling that it does not really solve any deep problem. I'm sure most people do it in

I hesitate to call charity outright "immoral", but it gives me the uneasy feeling that it does not really solve any deep problem. I'm sure most people do it in good faith, and it may be especially educative to do it in front of children (e.g., when you help a homeless person in the street). I still think the need for charity is the hallmark of a deeply broken welfare system. In that situation, the person giving and the person receiving charity become happier, but this is a very limited effect and only servers to fool yourself that the problem is not solvable so you just do what you can. I pretty much prefer to vote for left wing policies that will raise the taxes and then everybody will get to be happier.