Reply #101: That'll teach 'em [View All]

Good idea. So you are putting your own personal economic interests at risk for a moral reason? Bully for you. I hope that the others that put moral purposes before their own economic interest *do* suffer as a result of your actions. Then maybe you can increase their pain to the point that they must subsume their moral principle to yours.

Very elegant, don't you think? "If the poor who disagree with me are hungry enough, they'll vote and act the way I want them to."

Its nice that you realize that your charitable giving was for a self-interested reason and that you can purposefully manipulate the needs of those least-capable of helping themselves to achieve your personal goals.

This way, only the 'deserving poor' (i.e., those that happen to live in places where a slight majority of voters agree with you) receive the assistance that your noble generosity makes possible.

I am poor, you know. And I've been very, very, very poor. The kind of poor where you don't eat for days at a time. I'm really glad that those few people who decided to help me didn't depend upon folks like you. And if your wife loses her job and you are in dire financial need, I hope (for your sake) that you aren't able to convince many people to do as you suggest. Because, after all, "too many" of your neighbors disagreed with you.