The Glade 4.0

Just curious.

Mark 12:44 should answer that for anyone who claims to be Christian.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Generosity comes from the heart, and cannot therefore be measured. The most generous donate of their time, comfort, and patience.

Interesting. The poll assumes poor people are automatically more generous.

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I'd offer up a 3rd option.

How effective they are.

You mean the second option in the poll assumes poor people are automatically more generous.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Which biases the poll in its entirety ...

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No, the combination of both does.

It is possible, though perhaps unlikely, for a poor person to give more than a rich person. It is possible, but much less likely for a rich person to keep less than a poor person even if the poor person gives nothing.

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Not necessarily (to both Taly and Coro). You could view "how much" in terms of percentages or some more esoteric sense such as Arathain suggests. Even if you take a strict "absolute dollars" interpretation, though, (which, tbh, is what I had in mind when I started the thread) a rich person could give away enough to make themselves poorer than the poor person, in which case they'd be more generous by either measure.

How does effectiveness serve as a measure of generosity? I'm not seeing the connection.

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Now all we need is a word to attach the prefix "eigen-" to. How about eigengenerosity?

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My view is that offering up a huge amount of time or money that ultimately doesn't effectively change the situation of those you're trying to be generous with only makes the giver feel better, not actually be what I define as generosity.

That goes with the eigenlife thread! ...

You, good sir, just created a meme.

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What eigenlife thread? I was referring to the propensity for mathematicians to attach that prefix to anything and everything that pops up in the context of matrix algebra.

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eigenerosity

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Doesn't quite work, but I think I see what you're getting at. Eigengenerosity is sort of cumbersome, especially visually. What about eigencharity?

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Yeah, "eigenerosity" is kind of 1.21 jiggawatt-y.

Linerosity?

Eigenalms would be a good name for the act itself.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I don't know, but I don't like this poll. Certainly more about a heart action than a percentage or a dollar one.

Azile, A person could donate to build an entire hosptial to have his name on the building and for the PR and a tax write off. Does that make him generous, or just a smart business man?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Aizle just made a fantastic argument against taxation and government social programs, and no one noticed.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Lol, Rynar.

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You are confusing charity/generosity with civic duty.

Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't you recently make a statement about favoring government action over private charity, possibly even stating that the latter should be done away with in favor of the former?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Wait.. if you give a whole bunch of time and/or money and it turns out later on that it was futile, it's not generosity? Your generosity is just about making yourself feel better because it ultimately didn't work out the way you thought it would?

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I believe there should be a government provided safety net, that supplies the bare minimums need to live. Anything beyond that needs to be something that people need to learn how to supply themselves by working. Aside from possibly some disaster relief type programs, I don't really like charity organizations of any kind. The only kind of charity that I give is personal, where I'm the one providing the time/money/assistance directly.