Where is your social conscience?

I try to leave them alone so I don’t break any more than I did already.

I gave to charity for a couple years. Some kids charity. Stopped it in the end.

I froze it in ice right next to my fart.

Right here inside of me, next to all my other consciences…I give to charity, I help the homeless, I volunteered often, I am an activist, I am an environmentalist, I educate others…my life’s work will be devoted to working with ‘deviant’ communities so that they can gain rights…

I don’t ‘get’ anything, to ‘give back’ for. When I have the money to spare, I do as Arisztid does, and buy things to give directly to homeless people. Not to shelters, where it often goes..astray… but to the ones we see that need it.

We also give to people that we know help animals.

I’m still looking for it really. It’s just out of reach sometimes do to my greedy mind being sceptical about where this money is going for whatever charity or what that homeless man is really going to spend the money on. But in general I’d say the majority of my social concience goes to helping out my friends whenever they’re in need.

It must have been attached to my virginity when I lost it.

How did you know I lost it?

This is a BIG part of my life. There are a million situations we all come across that afford us the chance to give to others. When you give even to one person, society benefits from it. Look at what happens when I’m nasty to somebody. That sends massive negative energy to them, which has to go somewhere, right? I mean, energy doesn’t end.

I see my actions as throwing rocks into a pond. The ripples go outward in concentric circles, ever-expanding. If I throw out something bad, it impacts others that I don’t even know. This is unacceptable! If I throw out a positive, it too spreads. Energy is energy, period.

I do what I can to stop bad energy, even my own. It’s a clean-up-you-own-backyard type of deal as much as it is anything else. I don’t expect perfection from anybody. Just effort. I can forgive almost anything if somebody simply tries.

@phillis an excellent plan for us all.

I leave cat food for the mailman!

My actions are almost entirely financial. On rare occaissions when I do donate time and talent it is only where there is no F2F contact. My autistic nature does not allow that. It is also important to me that all my charitable actions be anonymous, even if it means passing up a tax deduction. I don’t want to deal with expressions of gratitude or people feeling indebted or obligated to me. I just want to do good and disappear.

My wife and I donate to a local food bank, and we send money to several organizations that help soldiers in some way.

My social conscience is stuck in wanting to help others but not sure where to apply me efforts.

Mine’s right here.

I can’t give back “Financially’ anymore due to my own financial losses and setbacks…

However; each Thanksgiving and Christmas ; I volunteer at the local Children’s Home and at the Homeless Shelter…. THEN; if I have any time left ; I’ll go to extended friends for the rest of the day…

I volunteer at http://www.freegeek.org/ to give computers to people that need them. It has helped a lot of kids.

i have never heard of leaving canned food for the mailman. i would be seriously insulted if someone left me some canned food.

but i have no social conscious. i am a leech on society and society knows it!

@warribbons RIGHT ON! Fuck society!

I have my social conscience in my heart. I see things I feel helpless about and I worry if I should do something and if I am thinking I can do something and really its me just saying I cant rather then actually trying to do something. I feel sad and frustrated when I see and know of or am with people who are in pain – emotional or physical. I feel sick to my stomach when people hurt other people or when freak accidents happen. I read books about people who have had to battle so much and I hear things on the radio and see things on tv and I feel overwhelmed by it all. I know I cant save the planet or whatever but sometimes the pain of all the sadness and unjustice is very great. Things that I do do are live an honest life and treat people with respect so I dont inflict them with anymore unfairness then they might be exposed to. I give food to food banks when I can and I donate presents for children at Christmas to go into food parcels. When I teach children I make sure that I model and encourage respect and care for others and I hope that this has a ripple effect. I also show great care and love to the children in my family so that they experience positive behaviours so that they will go on to have a social conscience. Oneday I want to do more but for now it is all I can do to get out of bed in the morning and function at times. My goals ahead are to offer my teaching and artistic skills (and after further training therapy qualifications) which I could charge lots of money for to a charitable agency and work for a low wage and do voluntary work around offering the skills I have rather then money. Money is important but I dont have it in excess to offer in any way that would make a huge difference. There is more ‘value’ in my offering services and tutoring etc. Social conscience is about what you do not what you talk about. Sometimes people talk alot about things they do but really sometiems the hard work is done by those who just get on with it and do the work. To me social conscience is about respect for others and respect for the environment. It is definatly in my heart where mine sits but when I let my head in on the act that is when I am most useful.

Do what I can, when I can, where I can.

@warribbons The thing about leaving can goods for the mailman is, every year (in some areas, apparently)the post office has a food drive for the less fortunate. You leave it in the mailbox and they collect it and see that those that need it, get it.

I haven’t had much opportunity to donate, seeing as how I’ve never really had my own money…

My parents on the other hand are quite wealthy and they donate all the time. They donate to local things and more large-scale things. They donate to the school all the time. Additionally, my mom has always been heavily involved in the schools I’ve attended (and still is).

I have done community service work and other such things and I do like to do it, so I do intend to donate and help out in such ways more often when I am older.

For one, I pay a lot of taxes. And I enjoy doing it. It makes me feel good. Donating money to specific causes is also something I value.