| | I tend to pick my battles carefully, and on my own. That is because I am a businessman, and that is a primary. Whatever time is left over I must decide about carefully.
The reasons that someone like me chooses to engage in charity, and social justice issues involve a couple of things.
The first one is because I have found myself in a place where I have a little more time and resources to aim at pursuits that do not directly involve capitalism. Capitalism is never hurt by my actions, because I am based out of it. It is also because true capitalism does not create impediments to iimproving mans' lot; in fact it does nothing but improve it. What happens is that there are things that a person sees they can do that satisfy them outside of straight capitalism, and still benefit it.
Service, to me, is not the right word for what this is. When I engage in projects of this nature, I consider my actions to be proactive ones. Not all "causes" involving the human condition automatically mean surrendering to collectivist or altruist thinking. The general welfare of all things acts is in my own self-interest. Just because so many people have entered into that realm with hanky ideas about the whys and whats of it does not discourage me from entering it on my own terms.
rde
(Edited by Rich Engle on 8/02, 9:15am)
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