| sperrico87 said: You don't have a right, and are not entitled to someone else's money. Private charity exists to help those who are in need, and for the most part people are generous and will help if they can. What is immoral is forcibly taking money from someone against their will and giving it to someone else. |
Care to come out and speak of your level of tolerance of the number of people you find acceptable dying because you believe those in need shouldn't be helped. Considering I believe a rights-based ethics system a pile of BS, I won't argue people have a right to anything. However, I do believe that if people want to have a semblance of a social contract they there are obligations people have to make sure society functions a certain way. You are free to disagree. But there is fallout from whatever you do.
In your case, what is your level of acceptance of infant mortality, children and elderly dying, and able bodied people ending up living under bridges because no one pays for shelter and then dying from a shive in their side because no hospitals will take them in? If individuals aren't entitled to any help, then why should hospitals, by mandate of law, be forced to not be able to turn anyone away?
Reality is that the welfare state exists because people don't like to have people go neglected. It has something to do with collective guilt over problem situations. Kudos to you for lacking this compassion, but you do need to address the level of death you find acceptable, for lacking this compassion. And no, you can speak of some sort of magic free market answer that makes poverty disappear. Humans have always had poverty.
