When the Republicans talk about the moral hazard of helping someone. When they cry socialism and Godless communism. They want you to believe that material comfort is a just reward for work and those that cannot attain it are therefore deemed unworthy by God or are lacking of character. Unfortunately for those that believe in the natural selection of materialism, the Pope does not so easily applaud your efforts at preventing moral hazard and believes you may be exposed to a hazard of your own making: “To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed,” Pope Francis wrote. “Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.”
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:54:05 +0000