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But why do you not care about those people? Those are also human beings and our fellow citizens. We should help them, not make fun of them for being losers and go "oh well, sucks to suck, I guess we're going to remake society to make their lives even worse."
I do care about them. But I'm not willing to trade the general warfare of the top 80% to help the dysfunctional 20%.
Of course, always.
Not always.
@Amadan's comments below are useful here. The fact of the matter is that somewhere around 10% of the population even in highly prosperous western societies are just going to continually fuck themselves up with bad decisions. This is a fact as real as gravity and it sucks. I don't think we should leave these people to die in the streets, but what to do when every bit of government "support" delivered feels like it's not only going nowhere, but might actively be subsidizing damaging anti-social behavior.
You, @BahRamYou, can keep telling me "it's hard out here in these streets!" and "people are struggling." Great. But what's your solution? Because if it's more of the same; a Government sponsored cash transfer and redistribution scheme, I am telling you it does not work for anyone involved. The poor remain trapped in poverty, the middle class gets soaked and slowly collapses, and the wealthy elite use the myriad holes in tax and estate law to shield their assets.
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