richardhutnik said: So, can anyone here argue that a nation using government run welfare to handle the poor and needy is a compassinate nation? I am curious to see if anyone can argue this. |
The state is a huge entity and too impersonal to really be considered compassionate. However I did already argue that it lacks compassion to want to take away welfare - or to not want the state to give it - as its taking away the only way some people have of living.