Forced compassion always short-circuits the human heart and destroys the integrity of true and loving charity.
Forced compassion is slavery. It dulls people's sense of caring for others. Without compassion people become as animals, willingly sacrificing the lives of others just to get ahead.
If the rights of the meek are to be preserved and the peace is to be enforced, the meek must stay strong. There is a critical moral difference between the peacemakers and the pacifists.
Jesus’s acts of compassion and his call for others to do likewise were never to be done by compulsion, but voluntarily, by free-will choice.
People enjoy helping when they can, it is part of human nature. But when people are forced to pay heavy taxes to finance entitlement programs, food stamps, and welfare, they hate it.
Socialism is structured so that it will never achieve its stated goals. The reason is self-evident: Socialism is a self-perpetuating consumption of other people's labors, and when those labors run out, the whole system collapses.
State welfare leaves the poor with little incentive to improve their situation because their basic needs are being met. A free ride through life doesn’t help people in the long run--it destroys their greatest capacity to learn and grow.
When charity for others is imposed by force, people are denied the benefits of carrying…compassion on their own shoulders. In this they are robbed of one of life’s grandest and most gratifying experiences possible.
