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Welfare vs Charity

Name: Anonymous 2010-01-05 7:54

This issue bothers me more than anything nowadays, so let's have debate.

So why should a person be FORCED to help someone else? If someone needs help, they can always ask for charity.

Name: Anonymous 2010-01-05 12:40

>>6
Point one:  It is the essential element in any human society.  The sharing of burdens to increase the chances of group success. 
Point two:  Poverty is ubiquitous, and a drain on resources.  Charity and altruism are more desirable human characteristics than greed and being judgmental.
Point three:  Again. Poverty is ubiquitous, and a drain on resources.  And no one is "forced to give up his property to strangers he doesn't even know", except in that we are forced to belong to our society. Our participation in this society "forces" contribution to a general pool administered by our elected representatives.

It's a problem that's more expensive to ignore, yet many try.  They believe that if everyone works as hard as they, then poverty would disappear.  They are angry and want to blame poverty on the poor. They believe that the poor create their own suffering and that their suffering will "teach them a lesson"; perhaps even that poverty is a natural process that weeds undesirables out of society.  This is called social Darwinism.  It is not a humane philosophy. Is this what you meant by human nature?

P.S.: Your writing...  Is English your first language?  Not an insult.  Just curious.

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