I would also like to applaud Michael Grech for his wise assessment of the Maltese people’s hypocrisy in his article titled ‘Myth of intrinsic generosity’ (December 31).

In a nutshell, wealthy donors would not suffer their low wage earning employees asking for a raise, and would rather fire them instead of showing generosity towards them.

Likewise, well-off donors would protest if the government were to minimally raise their taxes, instead of lowering them, and with those collected taxes help those living on the poverty line.

For it is clear that for every winner there must be a loser, and the Maltese psyche is adamantly in favour of winning at all costs through cheating one’s neighbour, for otherwise, if one is conscious of his morality, he would be labelled a ‘moron’.

Thus, all those excluded from the good life and who are living in poverty, like single mothers and welfare ‘bums’, are all losers, and one ought to show no sympathy towards them.

Furthermore, neo-liberal ‘rapacious destructive and greedy impulses’ seem to have engulfed all societies on our tiny planet with the negative result that noble creatures like elephants, lions and tigers, whales, all kinds of birds (especially on the Maltese islands) and other wildlife have been decimated and are on the verge of extinction.

Forests and jungles have been cleared away, water systems have been polluted and destroyed, the oceans are dying and the future for humanity looks very bleak.