By Angel Amorphosis
I am ethically opposed to charity.
Charity shouldn’t have to exist. In a compassionate world, care would be woven into the fabric of daily life, not extracted as spectacle.
Charity is society’s way of appealing to the cruelty that lives in all of us, asking it to behave kindly for a moment, to purchase redemption in coins and signatures. It is the illusion of goodness performed atop the ruins of neglect.
The need for charity is proof of systemic failure, not moral success. Every donation is a confession that our structures were designed without empathy.
If kindness were inherent, there would be no charities.
If fairness were real, there would be no causes.
If love were built into law, there would be no campaigns.
Until then, charity will remain the prettiest mask cruelty ever wore.