Accusations of "hate" are, of course, simply feeble attempts to misdirect from any critical examination of the easily accessible facts.
There's always been a virus afflicting those with far more than enough. It's effects have been scientifically documented and remain predictable. Those allowed to have way too much lose compassion and empathy for the plight of others. They lose emotional intelligence and develop a sense of moral entitlement.
A UC Berkeley study found that in San Francisco—where the law requires that cars stop at crosswalks for pedestrians to pass—
drivers of luxury cars were four times less likely than those in less expensive vehicles to stop and allow pedestrians the right of way. They were also more likely to cut off other drivers.
They are more prone to develop substance abuse issues, both as children and adults. Process additions such as compulsive eating, sex, gambling, and otherwise chasing after ever more money.
In conversation, wealth managers kept coming back to the flamboyant vices of their clients. It was quite unexpected, in the course of discussing tax avoidance, to hear professional service providers say things like:
“I’ve told my colleagues: ‘If I ever become like some of our clients, shoot me.’ Because they are really immoral people – too much time on their hands, and all the money means they have no limits. I was actually told by one client not to bring my wife on a trip to Monaco unless I wanted to see her get hit on by 10 guys. The local sport, he said, was picking up other men’s wives.”
The clients of this Geneva-based wealth manager also “believe that they are descended from the pharaohs, and that they were destined to inherit the earth”.
One can't reasonably "hate" the mentally ill. But they require our help. Our intervention. They're constantly crying out "Won't someone please stop me?!" while our culture, this culture they continue to cultivate, just provides them ever higher pedastools from which to dictate all the more destruction.
This petition appears rooted in false pretense, missing the mark so widely it's ridiculous. What we really need to do is stop these people altogether. Stop them all from doing these things ("charities") supposedly in our names. No one elects people like Bill and Melinda to decide where the billions they've effectively stolen from the masses and hidden from taxation get spent. Like it or not, ideal or not, that is the primary purpose of democratically elected and controlled government.
But Bill and Melinda are far from being first or unique in this regard. Every "foundation," huge "nonprofit," and, of course, huge, profit driven corporation suffers the same illnesses at all of our expense. Every Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, WalMart, etc. puts thousands of existing or potential mom and pops out of business, turning them into temporary workers and wage slaves. This is what has to stop.
