Both the action and the intention behind it must be moral. It's moral to help people in need. It's not moral to steal people's property to help another person.

Easier example: it's good to exercise. It's not good to exercise if your intention is to start violence against an innocent person.

That socialism and communism are evil is evident, I don't see the point in arguing for that.

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Who said anything about stealing peoples property? How is socialism and communism evil but not capitalism?

I’m still waiting for your response on “Who is stealing?”.

We're certainly in different time zones.

You mentioned some principles of socialism and communism during natural disasters. In my brief answer I showed you that for something to be good, both the action and the intention must be good.

Socialism and communism are wrong both in theory and in real life because even if their end result was good — and we have 100+ years of implementation with 100M+ of innocent victims killed and billions of slaves, all in peace time, showing that the end result isn't good — the means they use to achieve such end result are evil. It must always create a totalitarian regime where less than 1% live like kings and 99% are slaves.

Regarding capitalism, it makes no sense to classify it as good or evil. While socialism and communism are man-made systems, capitalism is an a posteriori description of how humans trade.

Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum!

True socialism has never been tried. Greed and bad actors has always corrupted socialism and communism.

You mentioned “stealing property” and I asked you about that, you care to indulge me?

Communing and working together socially are how humans naturally interact. Capitalism seeks profits at any cost, centralizing capital and resources, and has been the cause of many wars.

When you use Latin in a conversation that is clearly all English, it reminds me of Johnny Ringo in Tombstone when he is twirling his guns.