"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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[–]CherryPieNTheSky 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Honestly, I do a lot for people in my family, and my fiance. It's people outside of my immediate circle, whom I don't seem to care enough about to want to do anything for them. I wish it weren't so but it is.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's the American way.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You can work to change that, if you don't like it.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm the same way. One reason I'm a political liberal is because it seems very unnatural to me to just throw money towards a cause and have no visibility on what happens after that. Honestly, it feels like a waste of money. You could argue the exact same thing happens with social programs, but at least it's out of my hands at that point, and I'm not having to randomly decide how benevolent I want to be towards the universe at any given moment.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

everything we have, for example the computer I am looking at this website, I didn't invent myself, it is from a bunch of people working together to create it and funding from govt plays a big part. I support that march towards positive progress.