I think it's easier for some people to loathe the poor than it is to comprehend extreme wealth.The welfare "bum" is visible and an easy focus for derision,and may even be too close to our own economic position for comfort(ie,the palpable fear that,with a couple of wrong choices and/or a little bad luck,"my god,that 'bum' could be me!"),whereas how many of us really know anything about the very wealthy(other than what we attempt to assess through popular media)?
Maybe, but it doesn't even have to be VERY wealthy. When my dad dies, I'll probably
inherit enough to live off of for the rest of my life, if I'm careful. I don't see where it
is particularly fair that I should get this, in addition to having had the opportunities for
decent learning, when other's do not. There are unfairnesses the other way too.
It's just the way of things. Certainly, if someone wants to help some friends out,
by giving them a place to live, it seems odd to blame any of the participants involved.
I think fatty just doesn't like the PARTICULAR bums (for whatever reason) and is
thereby launching an attack on all of us.
Also,the central mythology in the middle-classes of western cultures is that we all coexist on a fundamentally even plane of daily activity as "citizens",and that anyone who "chooses" to not participate is dead weight.That attitude allows them to believe they are "playing the game" of success and implies a chance to oneday become one of the power elite.That mythology is the proverbial carrot-on-the-stick,and it is essential to keep the materialist-capitalist world functioning.If you question or challenge the status-quo,you are a stinking dissenter(aka "spoil sport").
Yeah. But what's worse, is that these same fucking moralizers who complain about deadweight are often among
the first to oppose someone's right to off themselves, if they can't see any productive end to their life.
Some people abuse goodwill and generosity,no doubt about it.But it is ludicrous to believe that life is ever fair,and sometimes that unfairness prohibits equal participation.That has to be strikingly obvious to anyone whose life is affected by ASD.
I don't see it as abuse. It is simply a matter of making personal choices.
The same arguments that the anti-suicide people make can be made
towards funding anyone who doesn't want to work: you never know
what good they can achieve. I've known people on welfare, who
volunteer for charities; and as I've said before, I would never have
had the time to work on my book, had I been working a 'regular' job
(not that it's going anywhere - we're trying to peddle it again - the contract
was dropped).