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Originally posted by stevepaa
I agree that each should do as best as they can, but I am not blinded to the fact that some will never achieve self reliance.
It is not unusual for those with success traits to be conservative and think anyone can do the same. That is the jist of most of the posts here.
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Life isn't fair. Some people are smart, some aren't, some people are born into wealthy families, some arn't, some people are physically attractive, some aren't. Most people realize that life isn't always "fair", and they do the best they can with what they have. These are usually conservatives. Liberals, on the other hand are usually utopian crybabies, who haven't lost their naive views of universial "equity". We can't make life "fair", we can only hope to make it "just". Taking person A's hard-earned wealth and giving it to person B, may be "fair", but it isn't "just", or moral. Welfare for the truly needy is a different matter, and a just and moral society should have a safety net for a select few... which shouldn't extend to guys gainfully employed at Kragens, for example.