The merit of "Me first" is that it is part of what is natural and instinctive and what is natural and instinctive works.
It is not the whole of it and human society also has a natural empathy that impels to us to care for those less fortunate who we feel to be deserving. Personally, I have no problem with sharing some of the wealth I have with those I feel are deserving, if a street cleaner will only put in the effort I do, why should he not have decent healthcare? it is not his fault that he does not have the IQ to get an IT contract. (Even the crap sort that I get, rant!)
The problem with the welfare state is that it disassociates effort from reward and the leftist rights culture completely disassociates rights from duties and obligations.
Yes, I am perfectly aware that that is simplistic, that we are all the products of what made us. Perhaps a lazy or criminal type is not necessarily any more to blame for what he is than someone who is disabled, it is simply a disability of the personality, something from the liberal left I would also not agree with.
But maybe in society, if we are to evolve and not go backwards under a baggage of sentiment, we have to look at what is practical and what we can afford to do. In any village there is only room for so many idiots.
It is not the whole of it and human society also has a natural empathy that impels to us to care for those less fortunate who we feel to be deserving. Personally, I have no problem with sharing some of the wealth I have with those I feel are deserving, if a street cleaner will only put in the effort I do, why should he not have decent healthcare? it is not his fault that he does not have the IQ to get an IT contract. (Even the crap sort that I get, rant!)
The problem with the welfare state is that it disassociates effort from reward and the leftist rights culture completely disassociates rights from duties and obligations.
Yes, I am perfectly aware that that is simplistic, that we are all the products of what made us. Perhaps a lazy or criminal type is not necessarily any more to blame for what he is than someone who is disabled, it is simply a disability of the personality, something from the liberal left I would also not agree with.
But maybe in society, if we are to evolve and not go backwards under a baggage of sentiment, we have to look at what is practical and what we can afford to do. In any village there is only room for so many idiots.
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