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Charity is peak individualism. In real communal places helping those in need is handled structured and organized, not just hinging on individual decisions.
by tokai 3y ago
Charity is peak individualism. In real communal places helping those in need is handled structured and organized, not just hinging on individual decisions.
- alephnerd 3y agoCharity used to structured and organized locally with Local churches, rotary clubs, and Samaritan organizations working to help less well off people in a town/neighborhood/city. All this has fallen to the wayside in the US as we have some weird form of individualism permiating on both sides of the political spectrum.
- kortilla 3y agoCharity is not individualism. You’re making a false equivalence between collectivism and the government. There are huge collectivist communities in the US (generally centered around religions) that have very structured and organized ways of helping those in need. It is peak collectivism to accomplish this without requiring the monopoly on violence and the taxation that comes with it.
- tokai 3y ago>You’re making a false equivalence between collectivism and the government And you are imagining things and claiming its what I am thinking.
- kortilla 3y agoYou literally said charity is individualism, with the implication being that anything voluntary (which is charity) is not collectivism. for it to not be voluntary, you need the monopoly on violence to force it.