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Observations on charity
If anyone thinks that, as a consequence of government involvement, you can stop Charity:
giving in the meantime, then he has parted with the personal responsibility of charity. generosity and
We probably cannot settle how much we should give towards charity, but a probable helpfulness especially
safe rule is to give more than we can spare. There should be things we would like to do toward the needy or
and cannot because our charity expenditures exclude them. Particular cases of distress suffering also : aid given
among our own family members (including relatives), friends, neighbors, our to those in need.
employees, which we are forced to notice, may demand much more. For many of us
the great obstacle to charity lies not in our luxurious living or desire for more money,
but in our fear—our fear of insecurity. Sometimes our pride hinders our charity; we
are tempted to spend more than we should on the showy forms of generosity (tipping,
hospitality) and less than we should on those who really need our help.
Observations on Ethics and social responsibility
Presume a book publisher publishes a children’s story book based on various
versions of the morality tale on the Fox, the Wolf and the fisherman. The Fox and
Wolf follow a fisherman who loads his catch on his cart and drives it to market to sell.
Some fish fall off, or are thrown off, during his travels, allowing the fox and wolf to
glean the fallen fish. However, this new author writes his story this way:
A fisherman goes out to catch fish, and piles his fish in his cart to take to
market. The fox sneaks up from behind and steals one fish, and then a second
fish. The fox is very sly and crafty, not bringing attention to himself and is able
to carry the fish away to eat and share with his fox family. The wolf observes
the fox and how he craftily steals the fish from the man’s cart. The wolf being
much larger and with a larger appetite knows that he needs more than a couple
of fish and decides to pounce on the fish cart with noise and flurry, to make off
with as much fish as he can carry. The fisherman has his shotgun with him and
kills the wolf with fish in its mouth. The moral to this story from our author is
that it is permissible to steal a couple of fish, making no noise to arouse the
fisherman on his trip to market. In contrast, the glutinous wolf tried to take
many more fish and aroused the fisherman. Simply put, the moral is that quietly
stealing a little is permissible whereas stealing a lot is not.

This type of story is read to or by young children, or allowed by their parents and 6
teachers, for entertainment and to encourage reading. This little illustrated book is
approved by the educational trades as appropriate in language and presentation for a
specific age group of six to eight-year olds.
Is the author being socially responsible to teach in his story that stealing is
permissible as long as it is a little and not a lot? Is the publisher who hires the No greater love is this,
illustrator to make the book colorful and appealing to a child, being socially that a man lay down his
responsible to print this book and distribute it to bookstores and libraries for children life for another.
to read and learn that stealing is permissible? Are the educators, who put their stamp — John 15:13
of approval on the book and classify it as being appropriate for a six to eight-year old
to read based on the vocabulary being used in the story being socially responsible
when the story line encourages stealing a little is permissible whereas stealing a lot is
not? Is it permissible for the fox, a cute small dog, to be exempt from moral behavior
whereas the wolf, being a bigger and more ferocious creature, is not exempt from
moral behavior? When you have parents who teach their children the differences
between right and wrong, and their child brings this book home from the school
library, as an approved reading book, are the parents moral training being undermined
by the school, and is the school being socially responsible?

We are made by our teachings in youth.
Samuel Croxall (c. 1690 – 1752) was an Anglican churchman, writer and translator,
particularly noted for his edition of Aesop's Fables. In his collection of writings’, he Train up a child in the way
offers and uses as an example the felon who began his crimes as a child. This story he should go, And even
reads as: when he is old he will not
depart from it.
A LITTLE Boy, who went to school, stole one of his school-fellow’s horn- — Proverbs 22:6 ASV
books, and brought it home to his mother; who was so far from correcting and
discouraging him upon account of the theft, that she commended and gave him
an apple for his pains.

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