Sympathy, compassion, kindness, smiles, & love

So, positive alternatives are:
sympathy, compassion, kindness, smiles, & love.
Nice, but nebulous, indistinct, indefinite, unclear, vague, hazy, cloudy, fuzzy concepts until MEASURABLE.
__ Notice how the negative concepts are very much dealt with in a QUANTIFIABLE manner:
restitution for pain-&-suffering (hurt/pain),
anger-management,
contempt-of-court,
penalties for mental or physical cruelty, etc.,
while the positive alternatives are left fuzzy & up to individual interpretation.
__ Compare how often you hear news or conversation about the Peace-Corps vs. about various armed-conflicts.
Crime statistics are readily available for various cities & neighborhoods, but when was the last time you came across neighbor-helping-neighbor STATISTICS?
__ Perhaps it's time to start COUNTING & CHARTING how often in a day we ACTIVELY PRACTICE sympathy towards someone who is practicing anger toward us,
how often we ACTIVELY PRACTICE compassion toward someone who is treating us with contempt,
how often we ACTIVELY PRACTICE kindness toward someone who is being cruel toward us,
how often we ACTIVELY PRACTICE giving a genuine friendly smile to someone who is grimacing toward us hatefully.
__ How often in a day do we ACTUALLY let go & move on (“forgive & forget”)? How do you do it? Do you actually have a procedure, method, or manner of doing it?
__ How often in a day do you own-up to something done wrong instead of faulting another or standing-by quietly while someone else is faulted for your mess?
__ And what exactly does this overused cliché “love” even mean anymore? Unless it is QUANTIFIABLE, daily producing MEASURABLE constructive results, it means absolutely NOTHING.

Whatever is subsidized, just creates more of it

Whatever is subsidized, just creates more of it. Subsidizing beggars only encourages more people to become beggars, etc. Demonizing & penalizing the $ucce$$ful through over-taxation just causes them to move their operations elsewhere, and jobs & tax-base are lost. The "well-meaning" & good-sounding welfare system ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his need") has destroyed & continues to destroy individual ingenuity, motivation, work-ethic, & responsibility among all who have fallen into that mind-trap of expecting “entitlements” from “Orwellian IngSoc ’s Big-Brother”, e.g., Native-AmerIndians, South-StPete, etc., etc. “But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?”― Walter E. Williams