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ah, is it really a question? if you hold them in regard, then there is no doubt about doing what it takes, that becomes the project, the effort will be your ascesis. after all, the perfection of works of love is not in the object, but in the love.

unless you think them unworthy, in which case we consign them to the frozen promontories of indifference, better serving through oblivion than existence.


but maby thats not what you had in mind? something deep or more instrumental perhaps? after all, here youve asked and not done. perhaps if the choice was made, it would be unable to handle it, very well then.

to begin, a *categorical* sense of 'external obligations' does not obtain, beings are not wholly segregated from being (or wholly united in of themselves). we are always and already operating under finitude, truths of being that we must account for and deal with. the atomistic dasein too would have 'obligations' that impinges on his possibility to do whatever. indeed, it is this very finitude that facilitates meaning. a poor being is that which desires untrammeled and unrestricted action. the act is not merely pointless, but unintelligable without context. can doing 'anything' even be truly imagined? even acts of mysticism, deus ex, or other ass-pulls, are still reliant on a pre-existing certain state of affairs that is acted upon. the process of overcoming is itself meaningful and validating.

topically, my advice would be that there is more to what the elderly can do in society than you may realise. consider looking into odd-jobs in areas such as education, or house-sitting, and the like. i also recommend getting in touch with extended family, not for strict charity, but cohabitation. shared living space and pooled resources reduces over-head for all (especially when all are contributing in some way). one of the best things grandparents can do is help raise the youngest generation, relieving the parental burden, allowing greater work opportunities.