>>This type of symbolic pablum over substance makes the participant feel better about their moral superiority while doing zero to alleviate the causes nor symptoms of the problem.
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>You might be right.
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>I would suspect if you are right, that you know this from experience.
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>So when is the last to you willingly went several days without food, only to discover it was all for naught?
Please be clear - fasting by the well-fed does not make the poor less hungry, however much it satisfies the hunger for self-esteem of those who fast.
Feeding the poor - and working to make it possible for them to feed themselves is a worthy thing.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
