The Dangers of Limitless Altruism

I'll admit that I'm not the most altruistic person in the world. I grew up with a: you take care of yourself attitude until you honestly need help, and then I will honestly want to help you, kind of attitude.

I can't help but think that Democratic demagoguery is crippling to so many they claim are victims of rightist cruelty. "But they can't!" or "Life's hard on them!" or "They don't have the same opportunities you do, so we should help them reach the same level of success!"

Who are you kidding? Making anyone feel they're victims to life when they're really just at the bottom rung is not helping them. When someone reaches bottom, they need to learn to fight their way to the top, not wait for handouts.

This country was built on a "Do-It-Yourself" attitude. It's quickly becoming a "Do-It-For-Me" attitude, and if you don't, I'll find a legal way to make you suffer for it.

Altruism is noble, but only when it's honestly to help people. I'd honestly say that being altruistic for altruism's sake is still a disservice to yourself, because you're doing good because it either makes you feel good or because being right makes you feel good. Or the 'act' of helping someone else makes you feel good, rather than actually setting out to truly help people.

Often that means helping them through a hard time. Sometimes, it means Not helping them. It means letting people fight for themselves.

When a baby bird hatches, it must do it itself. It's a law of nature. It's a matter of primal strength required to overcome a hurdle to survival. While those living in the ghetto are not baby chickens, they are being treated with no respect by those claiming the altruism to help them, but instead use them, keeping them weak while saying they're helping them. It's no different than a human breaking the shell for the chicken. It cripples the chicken when life dictates that the chicken should do it for themselves.

I'm all for assistance, and I understand how a mindset can be so crippling that someone who is at the bottom rung sees no way up the ladder, but until that person is honestly willing to fight their way up, any and all help does little to actually help.

People living in ghettos and illegal immigrants, obviously at the bottom rung of America's ladder, are being treated like victims by the altruistic elite, who are quick to point out that anyone who doesn't think these people are victims are likely reason these people can't climb, and that such way of thinking is archaic.

This nation was very backward during the Civil Rights movement, when whites dominated blacks and allowed them no chance to rise. Guess what? That's changed. Sure, there's still racism, but that's the case from both blacks and whites, on both sides. Racism can never fully be eradicated, but we've done a fine job of it.

It's time to let the poor be poor and the rich be rich. We should focus on keeping the rich from taking advantage of the poor, but still allow them to be rich. We should allow the poor to get so tired of being poor that they fight to get out of it.

Anyone who thinks that poverty is a curable disease isn't considering the one factor that makes that possbility impossible: Humanity.

That says it all.