Well, either you factor charity into your picture, or you don't. You can't just call it out of the wings when you need it to save yourself from a charge of "oh my gouged prices DID kill some people" and deny it otherwise.
Well, either you factor charity into your picture, or you don't.
I do. My point is that anything, even charity, can be mischievous if not done properly.
Charity is just another form of free enterprise. Unlike welfare, it is an enterprise freely offered and taken -- we need both free commerce and charity, we shouldn't be forced to choose between the two. But when the law restricts commerce we have to depend more on charity because we have less wealth. A hurricane in warlord-ruled Africa kills a hundred times as many people as it does in Florida.