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Charitable giving across traditions

Every tradition that has thought seriously about wealth has concluded that giving is not optional — that to hold more than you need while others lack what they require is a form of injustice, not merely an absence of generosity. The mechanisms differ — tithe, zakat, dana, ubuntu — but the underlying claim is consistent: what you have is not entirely yours, and the portion that belongs to others demands accounting. Reason reaches this conclusion independently.

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