Out of Weakness
25th October 2016
Sarah Hoyt lays it out.
When you say someone should have “housing and food, a car, entertainment, health care” you’re not saying that angels will come down from heaven and grant this. Or if you are, you really should tell us how to summon these angels. What you’re saying is “we should violate someone’s most basic and fundamental liberties so that someone else can be the equivalent of a trustfund baby with never a worry in the world.”
Whose liberties? Well, builders and farmers, entertainers and doctors. And while you might think those people can “give” you’re not thinking of scale. If “everyone” is entitled to this what you’re saying is that these people have to work so that other people can have everything for free even without doing anything.