The following thought was provoked by re-listening to Frederic Bastiat's The Law.
Highly Recommend.
Since positive rights are made by men with limited capacities, they must force other men to pay for them to continue to exist. In other words, if someone stops doing something or paying for it, the “right” simply evaporates.
Exacting money from all in order to redistribute it to some makes it impossible to credit anyone with charity. Forced gifts are not a product of generosity. Thus, these kind of "rights" prohibit charity by definition, eliminating it as an option. They turn what could have been sacrifice and selflessness into taxation and resentment.
Furthermore, the more “charitable” the government becomes, the more it takes away and the less is left for anyone to actually give of their own accord to their duties to immediate family. Forced charity leaves nothing left to charitably give unforced to one's neighbor.
In other words, Socialism is satanic. It eliminates charity and guarantees envy by creating disparities anchored in policies requiring all to contribute to what benefits only a few. It does as a government what would be illegal as an individual to do to another.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
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