Maybe so. I believe that the world is a much better place because of any number of people who fixed a problem that had nothing to do with them. I have no children in public schools, but I recognize how important they are. If they ultimately fail, it will be after I'm gone, no skin off my nose. I'm not poor, but I pay taxes to help those who are. I'm not old, but I volunteer for the Community Center. I give blood, but I have O negative; I should logically bank my own blood for my own use, or find another O negative person or two. I'll donate more than I ever use myself.
I had a chat with someone on a police brutality thread. I drive a nice car, I'm home by 9:00, I know the local chief of police. I have no fear of being on the wrong side of a wayward cop. There's no logical reason, therefore, for me to advocate for effective regulation of police activity, but I do.
A lot of life is more pleasant than it would otherwise be because anonymous people did something that had nothing to do with them.
Sometimes minding your own business is a virtue. Sometimes it's not.
Maybe so. I believe that the world is a much better place because of any number of people who fixed a problem that had nothing to do with them. I have no children in public schools, but I recognize how important they are. If they ultimately fail, it will be after I'm gone, no skin off my nose. I'm not poor, but I pay taxes to help those who are. I'm not old, but I volunteer for the Community Center. I give blood, but I have O negative; I should logically bank my own blood for my own use, or find another O negative person or two. I'll donate more than I ever use myself.What you do on your own time and dime should be entirely up to you. But I disagree with the rest of what you said. I think that the world would be a much better place if we abolished public education and all New Deal social legislation. And we would all be better off if we minded our own business and stopped obsessing about what other people do even when they don't harm us personally.