Yep. A report a few years back highlighted that not only was US the most charitable nation on the planet, but conservatives were far more charitable than leftists. No wonder when leftists are more than happy to use someone else's money to give.

Best examples of this are the "foundations" of such notables as the Clintons and Bidens who bilk money from the ignorant and then spend it on themselves. Frauds and worse.

A human is made up of many cells...we do not consider all those cells a collective...they just represent the "physical"YOU; even though, You are not your body, You are your mind, the body is only temporary.

A human being is a sovereign entity, not a cell of a
collective.

It would be interesting to know how many of those welfare-statists (who I believe are often elitists) actually tip in restaurants (with their own cash.)

You did right, Abaco. There is nothing in Objectivism that morally prohibits a person from helping someone who deserves it, if he can do so non-sacrificially.

That's good Randy. I'm glad your son made it through that, really...

He was correct!

Yes, One must we wise when sharing of abundance.
I give a monthly donation to Mercury One which doesn't take one cent for itself. Every penny goes toward helping others in distress...no CEO's taking a salary.

Seeing the results is most often all the thanks one needs.

Laughing.

Sharing of abundance, whether it be, time, money or advice is a human trait. Weather we realize it or not, consciously introspective humans seek to satisfy one's needs and when those needs are met, the value is automatically passed on to others worthy of that excess value.

The same thing happens within each cell of your body so it makes sense that the community of cells we call You would also act in the same manner....it is a "Celfish" act.

While it is not theft by force, many charities are to enrich those who run the charity. Always ask the percent that actually goes to help those supposedly to be helped. I usually from phone calls get that it is about 15%. Some of those for helping police and fire families just end in a hangup when asked. I would consider St. Jude, for example, as worth while were it not for the CEO raking off a $6.7 million yearly salary.

There is nothing wrong with a person choosing to reach in their pocket to help someone but there is EVERYTHING wrong with someone being forced to help someone.

What you did is proof that our mindset is not evil and selfish. Only wish that those on the Left could understand this.

what not whet, if it is a correctly spelled word it won't be flagged.

things not thins darn proof reader didn't catch that one!

G Harry Stine wrote in his Handbook of Model Rocketry a story about him asking a mentor of his how he could repay him for all he had done for the younger Harry (a late teen or young adult by then) and the response he received was "You can't the only thing you can do is Pay It Forward"
Pay it Forward has become the motto of The National Rocketry Association. We all have an obligation to our own self interest to Pay It Forward. One explanation of why the country is in the shape it is the failure of our parents and grandparents to do this for at least two generations and now possibly three. It in this case is teaching our history, instilling a sense of morality, a system of ethics, to do the right thins even if no one is looking or knows (when you do you will know). Not only have we failed to teach our history, we have allowed many to revise, rewrite, falsify and conceal by omission. There would be less racial issues if the true history had been taught. This from an old WASP who is remembering the history he was taught and discovering whet was taught wrong or just omitted!

It's not charity if you do it because you want to ;-)

To not feed a starving child is murder.

A matter of priorities???

It always bothers me that 'stinginess' is one of the first accusations Democrats make against Objectivists & Libertarians. I invariably point out that they are projecting THEIR OWN insecurities on people that they are probably too dumb to understand.

We're not sports people. Instead...

My son was in the marching band for four years. The NHS Marching Bears won titles every year in their division and were even victorious in the NYS Field Band competition in Syracuse NY. But the officials refused to let the NYSFB Cup leave the state. It's a long story.

During those years we donated for dozens of Drillmasters(tm), Jackets, gloves, snacks, and a host of other 'consumables' (including travel expenses) for lots of kids who couldn't afford the necessities of participation in a top-ranked band.

I worked the musical instrument trailer, and my wife chaperoned one of the five busses it took to bring the band to each competition.

Do you know what the difference between the marching band and the football team is?

Each week the football team starts out with a fresh score when they face their opponent. An error made playing last week has no effect on this week's game as long as the team wins the game.

When the marching band competes, they retain a cumulative score from all their the previous competitions of the season, and they are EXPECTED to improve their performance every week from the previous in terms of both complexity, freedom from errors, and musicianship! A single error by any person can tank the season.

The few athletes that are also in the band consistently report that the sports training was far easier than the two weeks of band camp & regular nightly and all day saturday marching practices.

Our oldest son spent nearly 3 years in homeless shelters, until he got back on his feet.

I've been making annual cash donations, to one of them, for helping to keep our kid off the street.

Charity should be provided by privately underwritten pools. Leave the bureaucrats out and allow, if I may, teach a man to fish, decision making. Its "my" money, I choose if and who should receive it. After all, it is MY life.

It's still theft. It is forced, not voluntary, and the bureaucracy wastes 99%.
Free will over "palatable" slavery every time.

Great story, always nice to hear deserving people getting support. Why make it anonymous? You too deserve credit, a “thank you “.

I don't have any problem giving my personal money to others and enjoying the results. Best when its anonymous - even when its hard not for the guilty/stupid grin on my face to give away the fact that I was the culprit.

Perhaps taxation would be more palatable if we could decide what departments to assign our money to. Read a short story on the subject once.