The brilliant articulate, and in your face Doug Casey debunks the concept of charity, explaining that getting rich is the best charity.
No kidding,
Intellectual honesty suggests that this be included on the charity page.
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAs2ywJ9tKo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Phil,
We can't have our cake and eat it too. If you don't like the charity page on the website as it is, which follows the official Libertarian Party line, then please write an article following the Doug Casey approach. I would expect such an article to debunk the official Libertarian Party line and assert that in our spare time we should help the needy one-to-one. If you want to quote Casey some more, you might want discuss how food aid destroys farmers' incentive to farm soil which is barren, flooded, caked by drought, or non-existent.
If you, or anyone else, would write a truly intellectually honest article on the Casey approach I promise I will take down the current charity section and replace it with your article. And, of course, I will expect us during tablings and other outreach to abide by our new view.
Ignoring the subject altogether would not be intellectually honest, since we know that "what to do about the needy" is a perennial question Libertarians are asked.
Meanwhile, while I wait for an article debunking charity, I will update the current charity section in the very simple and non-complicated way of just posting some charities that help the needy that some of us give money to.
Marcy
Hi Marcy,
Doug Casey is against "corporate charities," not the kind we typically recommend. I see no contradiction in including Doug's interview as Phil suggests, along with charities such as IJ, LVMI, II, Raphael House, SMART Recovery, and others. Make sense?
BTW, you refer to a "charity section" on lpsf.org. I could not find one. Is it possible to make it more prominent, perhaps in the "Main Menu" box?
Warm regards, Michael