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If you are truly altruistic, this means that you dip into

your own pocket to give people things, right? True altruism is when you are charitable

with your own resources. It's a wonderful thing, right? Being altruistic about your own resources,

recognizing that you owe something

to your community because you're a member of that community, you're a member of that body politic.

That's a good attitude to have. You know, it's a terrible attitude to have is when altruism actually

amounts to, I'm going to put my hand in your pocket and I'm going to give your money away and

then I'm going to pat myself on the back for how altruistic I am.

And unfortunately, an extraordinary amount of democratic policy, economic, environmental, foreign,

enormous amounts of this policy are predicated on the idea that you are most altruistic

when you are putting your hand in somebody else's pocket and then giving away their money,

when you are taking somebody else's life and affecting their life in a way that makes you feel good. But it doesn't actually have any effect on you, but it makes you feel incredibly good because you are making Bob pay the bill. And let's face it, Bob deserves to pay the bill. You don't deserve to pay the bill. You're the good person. You're making Bob pay the bill. But so long as you are making Bob pay the bill, you own no consequences. You don't have to actually be altruistic. You don't actually have to do anything. It's all up to you to make sure

that somebody else does this thing. So much of left-wing policy is predicated on this very idea

that the rules that you think should broadly apply to humanity and the consequences of which are not owned by you, those rules are good

so long as you promulgate them. And then the minute you are clocked in the face by reality,

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