[mjp]

All the altruism in the world won’t solve the poverty problem. Survival and life proper to a rational being requires gaining and keeping values not sacrificing them. Finally non-sacrificial giving to charitable assistance is influenced by the law of diminishing marginal utility, just like any other activity. An individual stops giving when the importance that is attached to giving to the poor falls below the attachment that one gives to one’s own needs and desires.

[af_vet_1981]

The goal is not to solve the poverty problem, for the poor are always with us to the end, but rather to work out our salvation with fear and trembling obeying and doing the words and works of the Messiah.