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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (9798)3/26/2001 8:28:19 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
We are all connected. If you are part of society, when you harm yourself you harm me. We are more than individuals- we are a collective as well. If my neighbor drives his motorcycle without a helmet and has a brain trauma that renders him incapable of working he will either a) collect disability, or welfare, or assistance of some sort to support himself OR b) he will starve. I prefer to live in a world where those who are indigent and needy need not starve or beg so I approve of a certain amount of state welfare. Because I (and a majority of other people) approve of this, we want some control over how people live so that we do not have huge numbers of people drawing on these services. Things could be otherwise- but the majority of people want order more than they want freedom. Freedom tends to be rather nasty when applied liberally. Freedom isn't so great when you are free to starve or beg or be sick without the hope of care, or be ignorant without the hope of education, or the freedom to be worked to death in unsafe conditions.
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