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On the Choice of Charities

Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:57

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My father and mother had a favorite charity: St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. This is a choice some of my siblings have made and the choice is particularly reasonable in that St. Jude’s Hospital has worked wonders to save the life of a young great nephew who had bone cancer in a leg. My own choice of charities is different as I just explained in an e-mail to my siblings.

I wrote:

St. Jude’s Hospital is a worthy cause. However, many will give to medical institutions, while few care enough about the many and broad rights of the individual to support the think tanks that fight so hard to preserve and expand our freedom to exercise our many rights as individuals. For this reason, I do all I can to support the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Capital Research Center, The Institute for Justice, Cato Institute, The Independent Institute, The Atlas Society, the Foundation for Economic Education, The Right to Work Committee, Judicial Watch, National Federation of Independent Businesses, The Mercatus Center of George Mason University, The Institute of Humane Studies at George Mason University, Americans for Prosperity, some very select activities of the Heritage Foundation, CFACT, and SEPP. The last two are primarily about environmental and climate change sanity. Because almost every educational institution and most of the press and media are advocates of ever greater collective power over the individual, these independent, pro-liberty think tanks are critically important.

It is our individual freedoms that make our standard of living possible and which allow us to choose our own values as goals in our own lives. We must never allow anyone else to take over the management of our own lives. Unfortunately, most Americans do want to exercise some control over the lives of other Americans, without even the obligation of knowing those they would dictate terms to and very often while knowing they are actually harming some, usually with the excuse that it is for the “greater good.” The “greater good” is always the demon that devours our individual freedoms and self-ownership. The only greater good any of us actually share in common is our own liberty. Other than that, we need the freedom to think and act independently and the freedom to associate with others as we choose. It is those freedoms that then allow us the freedom to cooperate with others. Individual freedom is not anti-social as many try to portray it. Individual freedom is the means to make ourselves individually valuable and worthy of the respect and cooperation of others.

There is absolutely nothing wrong in admiring the work of St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, aside perhaps from the religious name and the idea that by supporting it, you are doing good work that will win you the approval of the One God and a reward of Everlasting Life. Freedom of conscience and freedom of association allow one to make this choice to support St. Jude’s Hospital for Children.

Without them, one might be forced to instead support the Institute for Xi Thought, as a Red Chinese propagandist recently insisted when I refused to entertain a delegation from Red China at my laboratory. Yes, the Chinese will impose Xi Thought upon us, he insists. Given the weakness of our educational system and the collectivist ideology of the schools, many young Americans who embrace socialism, the media, the governments, and many other institutions in America, this is a possibility, though probably under some future Chinese Great Leader.

Source: https://objectivistindividualist.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-choice-of-charities.html

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