Charity Dbq Essay

People are faced with several perspectives on charity. Charities do not always solve the problems they aim to solve. Charities’ target issues that are far too extensive to be fixed with mere money. Therefore, they are not fixing the issues, but rather they are covering them while the main issues continue to grow larger. Charity also does not always go to the destinations in which one believes that he or she is helping. Also, donating all of one's extra money is a completely absurd idea to believe is possible. Ideas like this only work in a perfect, utopian society. Charity drives people to donate for the wrong reasons, such as certain perks that one receives when they sign up to donate to a particular charity. Some people think that charity …show more content…
Donating to charity is like kissing a child's finger that got pinched in a drawer. It gives the child the false feeling that their finger is fixed, but in reality nothing changed. An example we see of this is in source B, it says “ Charity helps the recipient with their problem, but it doesn’t fix the cause of that problem.”(Source B, Para 4). The world needs to fix its problems before it can begin to help those that are suffering. Donating only helps these problems temporarily, they are much bigger than what charity can fix. Charity is like patching a road. It provides the road some temporary stability, but eventually the road still has to be replaced. We can see this from an example in source B. It states “...charity is wrong when it's used to patch up the fundamental injustices.”(Source B, Para 19). There are fundamental problems with our society. These problems of society are what need to be fixed before fixing the problems that stem from it. The charity that one provides only has an effect for a temporary amount of time before the root of the issue has to be fixed. Once that issue is addressed it is easier to help the people struggling from