The Immorality Of Charity
A Chapter From The Utopian Realism Fundamentals
Publish Date - 12th September 2023 - 1157 Words
Utopian Realism does not believe in the value of charity.
Charities should not exist.
If a charitable organisation must exist, what is that saying about a peoples social structure and economical model?
In a proper functioning society, there should be no poverty or homelessness.
A healthy society has a healthy philosophy, social structure and economic model, all which are aligned with what is true and most effective.
If these foundations are in place, then it is impossible for there to be poverty or homeless people, unless someone deliberately chooses to live without a home.
If a charity exists, it only demonstrates how corrupt and broken that society must be.
Instead of giving to the poor and needy, which is only a bandaid treatment, it is better to focus on curing the problem.
The problem always being philosophies based upon subjective faith, the social structure being involuntary and coercive and the economic model utilising money or trade.
It doesn't matter at what time throughout history you check or where in the world you look, you can be certain that if a charity exists, or if poverty exists, it’s because those 3 corrupt approaches to life exist.
Subjective faith, involunatarism and currency combined are the perfect recipe for poverty, homelessness and charity.
Poverty and charity cannot exist in societies built upon objective reasoning, voluntarism and contributionism.
A charity is just like a tumour, a last ditch effort to help a broken and dying body or system.
For that is all a tumour is, an accumulation of toxins in one localised area in an effort to protect the body from those toxins running rampant and injuring more valuable organs and parts.
Although many tumours are more successful remedies than charities, as if you give the body enough time to heal and stop poisoning it, the tumour will eventually dissipate as the lymphatic system drains and detoxes the built up poisons.
If you leave a charity running and do not fix the cause, it will continue to exist.
As long as the charity exists, it is the flag that poverty or those in need exist.
Charity rarely addresses the root cause and most often only treats symptoms.
Those who work in charity may have the noblest of intentions and often are good people, yet they are not focusing on the root problem, because they are unaware of what it actually is.
Charity often differs from generosity, kindness or true care because of the way charity is applied.
An act of charity may be to feed a 1,000 families in Africa on Christmas eve.
But really, what good is this?
Hardly any at all, because the next day they go back to being hungry.
If instead the charitable action was to educate these families how to grow their own fruit and vegetables and to provide all the necessary equipment and training to do so, this is what is actually useful.
This wouldn't be a charitable act, but a truly caring one.
Providing a million families with a meal once per year is not a sign you care about them, but a sign you care about people caring about you.
Giving a thousand people water for a year through a charity organisation is only useful for a year.
If you really cared, why aren't you helping to teach those people how they can dig a well and get their own water forever?
Instead of gathering a ton of donation money to build a high quality road through a town in poverty, educate the people who live their how to construct their own road and provide them with the machinery to do so.
It sure is charitable to give a homeless man on the street money, but it sure isn’t a moral, helpful or a truly caring thing to do.
What is this teaching the homeless person?
That all he needs to do to fuel his self destructive alcohol, cigarette and drug addiction is beg and take advantage of human kindness?
If you truly cared, you would ask him why he is begging, why he is not trying to add value to you in exchange for something.
If a beggar is asking you for money because he wants food, then why would you give it to him?
That does not help him learn how to get food when he needs it.
He should be asking those with food for food, not those with money.
The amount of good food that restaurants, cafes and supermarkets throw out every day is enough to feed every malnourished person in the world, probably more than that too.
Teach him how to ask the appropriate places to find food so then he never has to beg for something he actually doesn't need, which is money, to get what he really needs, which is food.
Give a man a fish he can have a meal, teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime, create a system teaching men how to fish and no one will ever go hungry again.
By giving beggars money, you are committing an immoral act, as often all you are doing is helping them to harm themselves.
When you hand over money to someone who has done nothing to deserve it, who has actually done something to not deserve it, as who really wants a beggar attempting to make them feel guilty and uncomfortable, then you are teaching them that they can be paid for something which they shouldn’t be doing.
You are encouraging their begging lifestyle by financially supporting them and also encouraging them to harass others.
If no one at all gave the beggar any money, they would be forced to realise that they actually have to do something productive to earn value, that they couldn't exist as an emotional and financial vampire.
Instead of caving into the homeless beggars desperate pleas for currency, tell him that he has a great opportunity to make enough money to support himself right in front of his nose.
Teach him that he can go from store to store cleaning their windows, sweeping the pavement in front of their shop and taking out their rubbish.
In exchange for his work, he can ask the business for a small donation.
They may or may not accept, but if the homeless man goes to 100 stores and only 80 of them pay him $2, he has just made $160, which is more than many other people may make at a normal job.
You can be charitable, or you can actually care.
One is good for your ego, one is truly good.
If a charity and charitable acts exist, it is the indicator that the society you have found yourself in is a dystopian one.
If there are no charity’s and no poverty where you live, there is a very good chance that you live in a Utopian community.
Utopian Realism is against charity, but for caring.