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I didn't bother to read any of the supposed "arguments" or "analyses" of why charity is supposedly irrelevant or immoral or whatever. On the one hand I have the impulse to say that great people and great nations rise up in great acts and great character, and if you don't get that--you're really not worth trying to have it explained to. My second impulse is that I'd rather my tax dollars go to suffering impoverished victims of disaster than fat Bush-voting church-going flyover-state morons (and it's not close), or to a dishonest irrelevant moronic useless war that is killing tens of thousands of people, at least, for nothing. But then I shouldn't talk about spending tax revenue since I already decided I don't intend to participate very much in this government. Whether Bush and Bush-types give a lot, or nothing, it's almost hard to care.