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I'm sorry, but I don't buy into this concept of "charity" myself[1].

It is wonderful that people can see, but how much money you have should have no bearing on whether you stay blind or not.

These people are victims of a system and charity is just painting over the cracks.

Perhaps he could devote his energy to start the change.

Charity (and alms) is what people did back in the day. Some societies moved on.

[1] Better said: I'm not against charitable acts. I'm against charity as a replacement for an humane and fair society. Sometimes it feels like having a water station next to workers being being whipped to build the pyramids. Perhaps stop the whipping?




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