Aristotle makes the same point Scalia did in "Nicomachean Ethics". He talks about how the recipient of charity hates his benefactor. The benefactor derives a nice feeling from donating money to a poor person, so he ASSUMES [wrongly] that the same feeling is generated in the object of his charity.

As Aristotle points out, someone who is in debt to someone else DREAMS of them dying (so that they no longer feel indebted). Imagine if you took out a loan to a bank and the bank died, thus absolving you of the debt? You'd be in ecstasies.

Likewise there is an unreciprocated love between benefactor and pauper.

Long story short: White people, don't imagine that you can buy the love of black people and other minorities. The more you "try to be charitable," they more they resent you . . . the more they see your gift as an "entitlement".

Aristotle makes the same point Scalia did in "Nicomachean Ethics". He talks about how the recipient of charity hates his benefactor. The benefactor derives a nice feeling from donating money to a poor person, so he ASSUMES [wrongly] that the same feeling is generated in the object of his charity. Wrong!

As Aristotle points out, someone who is in debt to someone else DREAMS of them dying (so that they no longer feel indebted). Imagine if you took out a loan to a bank and the bank died, thus absolving you of the debt? You'd be in ecstasies.

Likewise there is an unreciprocated love between benefactor and pauper.

Long story short: White people, don't imagine that you can buy the love of black people and other minorities. The more you "try to be charitable," they more they resent you . . . the more they see your gift as an "entitlement".