Here’s another short yet thought-provoking video from Redshift Media, the same people who created “Edgar the Exploiter.” “George Ought to Help” is a simple yet very effective illustration of the ultimate immorality of coercive “entitlement” programs ~
One caveat ~ the video’s proposed alternative to statism – “Stateless Society” – isn’t going to work. Its underlying worldview is atheism, which presupposes self-interest and generates no altruistic tendencies. It provides no philosophical basis for philanthropic activities.
Might I suggest a much more appropriate/effective worldview?
Rather than “non-agression,” “voluntaryism,” or “libertarianism,” Christianity has a good term for helping the “Olivers” of the world – it’s called “charity.” And it actually used to work pretty well… when we were a Christian nation.
“Its underlying worldview is atheism,”
Advocacy of a stateless society is compatible with atheism or theism (including Christianity)–and indeed with a broad set of philosophical positions.
“which presupposes self-interest and generates no altruistic tendencies.”
Nothing inherent to atheism presupposes that people do not have altruistic tendencies. Broad self-interest is compatible with atruism and charity.
Thank you for your comment. I didn’t really mean to imply that atheism was totally incompatible with altruism.
I’m just saying if you start a prioi with atheism – that is, assume no other worldview ever existed – I don’t know how the concept of altruism would even develop. If self-interest is the ultimate “good,” each human life would have inherent worth, only insofar as it was of value to the self. “Worthless” lives wouldn’t really have any “right” to life, and therefore wouldn’t be “worthy” of charity.
Explained in more detail HERE.