Thursday, May 31, 2007

96 - Right-Wing Charity: Sufficient Atonement For Their Sins?

A change of pace today. Not a lot of numerical stats and percentages, but some political and moral theory.

We'll delve into three interrelated subjects:

--the value of charity

--right-wing charity vs. the consequences of their public policies, and

--liberal vs. progressive prescriptions for a better world.

My friend Jeff from gopexposed.com left a comment a while back containing a couple of points. We'll use Jeff's comments as a springboard for today's discussion. In two instances, Jeff had a misimpression of what I said. Maybe I wasn't clear or emphatic enough. Others may have had similar misimpressions. So it'll be good for me to clear those items up now as well.

The bottom line is: whatever good conservatives do with charitable giving, is far more than offset by the public policies they support, which cause a level of increased human misery, suffering, pain and death far in excess of any charitable benefaction conservatives are capable of.


(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine, but at least do me the courtesy of listening to the podcast first. Please don't respond just on the basis of the brief preview above. Thanks!!)

Jack Clark 3:10 PM [+]   2 comments
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