Anything peaceful and voluntary.  Charity and The French Mistake
Barry J. Schwartz, Ph.D. Charity can be a challenging topic:
People should be militant about their liberty, and also remember
that liberty includes their freedom to be kindhearted in their
own damn personal way. That means—charity without any Socialist-
or establishment-religion guilt mongering …Thomas Sowell makes a
great case for the distinction between “Compassion Versus Guilt”
in his book by the same name. Now, the thing about France. In
Paris, you can walk along the Hotel des Invalides with the
magnificent acres of green parkland. It’s an ostentatiously
beautiful palace that served as a hospital– a gilded monument to
“top-down” generosity– a grand gesture of noblesse oblige that
the French carry off with a style that nobody else can match.
Why even try? But somehow, these great works still failed to
prevent famines and bloodbaths in Paris. That may have led the
curious to visit America, where there had never been a famine,
and where there