Potty-Training Your Cat

You can do it yourself, with household items.

Home

Why?

Our Kitties

Movies (proof)

Flushing

Training

Deterrents

Donation Philosophy

FAQs

Dedication

Donation Philosophy

The direct, voluntary payment idea should be applied to government. Why tie our taxes to anything (income, sales, etc.) other than the govermental services we want. We should pay to subscribe to governmental services that we have the option to directly vote on. If we don't pay, we don't get to use or share them (highways, etc.). Paying for welfare would also apply. You can voluntarily donate to a pool of funds that will end up going to those who may never be able to repay. This would be in exchange for you being eligible for those funds in the case you fell into the same type of situation or it would simply pay for you feeling better for having contributed to those less fortunate. If people are willing to donate to chairities, why not a system like this? There is no fundamental difference between a group of people that is labeled "public" vs. one that is labeled "private". The only real difference is in the number of people in the group.

If you are thinking that all this is fine in theory but would never work in practice, you are wrong. The principles of trust are working, in practice, right now. You have probably used this paradygm today. Did you pay for anything using cash or electronic currency? What is that? It's just paper and electrons. It only works when most people trust that the next person that you try to give it to will join in your nonsensical belief that the piece of paper is as useful as the goods or services that you will exchange them for. Most all of our market is based on our trust in our fellow man or woman to not drop their belief in temporarily pretending that a small piece of paper is as valuable as food or clothing or healthcare services. Economies collapse when this trust is violated.

Other People

A lot of the rationale for maybe not paricipating in a donation-type trusting policy is related to what I'd call an "other people" attitude. Other people will try to take advantage of me, if I don't do it first. Other people are the bad drivers and I am somehow justified in not using my turn-signal to let those behind me know that they need to prepare for an abrupt change in my speed, because I am turning, etc. I don't like either the democratic or republican candidate but won't waste my vote on the third-party candidate, whom I like, because my crystal ball tells me that "other people" will be voting for one of the other two and I want to make sure the one like the least doesn't win. I have news for you. You are "other people." When you act in accordance with those principles, you are not reacting. You are the cause.

My argument is not that it is simply the right thing to do. It's that you actively put yourself further behind economically (time, money, resources, choices) when you take this attitude.

So if you come across someone who is putting useful or entertaining stuff out there and it is not part of their "regular" job, actively encourage them by donating. You are not losing something. You are promoting systems in which you will gain or retain that which would otherwise go to wastefulness, added time, and general inefficiency.