[quote="Azdgari"]If you could, through pure charity, provide 90 impoverished people with food and water, [/quote]
This benefits 90 people, at a cost of none to those who are not willing to give up their money.
[quote="Azdgari"]OR provide 100 impoverished people with food and water through a mandatory tax, which would you choose?[/quote]
This benefits 100 people at a small cost to everyone. However, to keep things simple, we'll say that most of the people who are being taxed would have paid for the charity anyway. To keep things simple, we'll keep the same population size for both groups, so that it would be 90%.
So, what have we here?
90 people being helped willingly by 90% of a population, or 10 more people being helped by the other 10%.
So, it all boils down to this: should the 10% be forced to help?
If I say no, then that makes me a selfless jerk who doesn't care about people in need. If I say yes, then I'm a selfless jerk who doesn't care about other people's rights to do as they wish with their money.
I'll pass.
