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From the Mammon Issue (May 2000):
Ask The Fed Bitch Goddess Ginger Gentile Dear Fed Bitch, I really hate the poor. Not the working poor, but the homeless, the crackheads, the starving children in Africa. They disgust me. I don't want to help them by giving money to charity, which would just contribute to their survival. Am I a bad person? --Scrooge
Dear Scrooge,
The Fed Bitch doesn't think that you are a bad person. Your emotional response is troubling you enough that you had to seek advice. You only enter a moral limbo when you stop questioning your actions. My advice to you, Scrooge, is simple. I can't tell you to love the poor, and I can't even tell you that giving to charity is a good thing to do, since an argument can be made that the poor are a drain on society (see Mein Kampf) and are just all together unsightly and drive away tourism (see Rudolph Giuliani). But I can tell you that hate is a very different emotion from indifference. It is active, requiring energy and time. The fact that you actually hate somebody who you don't even know is unhealthy. Therefore, I suggest that you take a homeless person out to lunch. If after listening to his or her story you still actively hate them, then fine. But if you are at all touched by his or her words, then your opinions will most likely change. I am not saying that you will become the next Mother Theresa, but perhaps you won't feel so disgusted the next time you step over a bum on your way to work.
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