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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
Supe, you are missing Legion's point that he should not be held responsible for other people's band aids in the first place let alone an expensive long term treatment plan.
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I've heard this "you missed the point, superman" thing before. I see them as a signal to look harder. Sometimes they cause me to pick up on something I did miss. If I have missed something, please help me out. Here, what I hear is you saying is exactly what your paraphrase suggests. You do not want to foot the bill for other peoples' problems. That's DARNED SIMPLE. I think I get it. Please help me out of you still think otherwise. But first, let me help YOU:
I think what I'm missing is acceptance of your conclusion. You conclude that when a society helps out its poor people, using community money, it ruins the country. It causes a large portion of the nation to become lazy and selfish, causes runaway unemployment, perhaps causes evil labor unions to demolish the country's economy, and causes the Earth to spin widly into the Sun and burn to a cinder. That's the part I don't accept. One of the world's most socialist countries, Sweden, is and has for a very long time been regularly recognized as having the highest, or at least nearly the highest, standard of living in the world. The United States, on the other hand, is slipping out of the winner's circle in a number of areas including economics.