A speaker argues that left-wing people are less altruistic than conservatives because they rely on government for social services instead of building their own institutions. He points to religiously founded hospitals as evidence that conservatives do charity work, while leftists volunteer less and expect the state to provide.
A lot of leftists have fortunes of money. So how many hospitals have been built by Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, right? Such-and-such Baptist Hospital, right? Saint-something Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital. Where are the leftist hospitals? What the leftists will say is, no, what they do is push government to make hospitals, which is exactly what big government does. Big government removes altruism. Big government crushes the human desire to do good on their own. I don't have to do good, the state will. That is how the left looks at life and teaches people to look at life. Leftists volunteer much less time than conservatives to charities. Look it up. Because they don't want to do that. The government will do it. Why should I?
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