Irrational Compassion

With record people going on food stamps, it's only natural people will want to help other people.

President Obama himself alludes to the notion of "helping one another" and "we're in this together."

The latter likely to make one of my "Phrases I hate" posts.

Yet, when people try to help other people, the government gets involved and stops it.

It's irrational and immoral beyond the pale.

Especially when it's based on faulty bull shit, pseudo-scientific logic.

Over to you Mayor Michael "Billions don't guarantee common sense" Bloomberg:

'...Since then, other cities have followed suit. In New York City, for example, Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned food donations to the homeless earlier this year "because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content."

I'm told it's a sin to waste. And when we try to do right, you can be assured someone from the state will prevent you in fulfilling your obligation to another human being.

See, here's the thing. The version of a healthy community Obama espouses is anything but. What it does is in fact weaken the impulse of people to naturally want to help one another. Obama doesn't have to "say" he wants people to be dependent on the state. All he has to do is bribe them with goodies. And where people don't want the entitlements but choose to make a difference on their own, sissy nanny-state laws will be sure to block them.

We lost the plot on how to help ourselves.

The mentality malaise is just something I observe. It's not rooted in fact or anything but the mere fact Mayors like Bloomberg pull shit like this with scant reasonable reasoning, only points to the degree of absurdity we have reached in our ignorance.

Think about things. When you ponder them long enough you can think with clarity. Bloomberg's war on obesity, with reasonable guesses, will amount to NOTHING. It won't solve the obesity problem but it will add a layer of bureaucracy Western governance needs to shed. The logic behind banning 16 ounce drinks is enough to make a mockery of critical thinking - and believe you me, you don't need to be a genius to figure out that a person can easily just buy 2 8 ounce or 4 4 ounce drinks if they want their 16 ounce fix.

How to deal with that?

Banning choice is not healthy. It's tyrannical.

But where we can merely brush it off with a "well, it's good for them, so what? you can't easily apply this logic when dealing with the needy and the poor.

Here, the government is EXPLICITLY showing A) it's ability to coerce and use force when needed even when it's for PEACEFUL measures the state itself claims to support and B) it contributes to the cycle of poverty humans try to fix.

Where human interactions is clearly for the good, the bureaucracy should stay clear. However, we invite them to control us when we show addiction to their intoxicating promises of "helping" us.

The result is so plain to see, it's painful.

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Speaking of myths, how long have people been without power? I thought FEMA was the answer to all according to the NYT. Something as simple as preparing against power outages can't even be handled well. Something is wrong with the grids and without proof and out of pure ignorance, I bet you the reason for that is bureaucratic nonsense in New York.

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Over one million people voted for Gary Johnson. All I can say is keep at it. Keep hammering. Convert one million to TWO million.