Re: Christians in a Post-Welfare State World
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, [email protected] wrote: >> Um, well, make up your mind, then. Either we *can* do something about >> it ("having the support >is good") or we *can't* ("won't solve the >> problem either... the poor will always be there"). > > False dichotomy. My comments are not at odds. > > I think giving the support to the less fortunate is a good thing and > therefore not a waste of money. Well, as I explained in one of my follow-up e-mails, the false dichotomy here is the assumption that "doing something" necessarily entails government action, and the more of it the better, which is what people usually mean by "giving support". If the reason for dissing private support is that it won't "solve the problem", then public support should be similarly dissed for not being able to "solve the problem". > The war on drugs? That is a waste of money. Oh, it's *worse* than a waste of money; it creates more problems than it solves, and on a wide societal level. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot