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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
As I told Hap, I'm glad we live in a country where (for the most part) the poor aren't dying in the streets from sickness and hunger. Social Darwinism is brutal. It rewards those who take advantage of and exploit others. It necessarily places a lower value on some human life. It stratifies and divides society into caste systems. That's the antithesis of what America is to me. "All men are created equal."
If you want to get purely economical about it, having consumers die in the streets is bad for business. Better to keep them alive and spending.
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I want to make it clear, I am not trying to argue with you for the sake of being contrary
Yes, I am glad we are living in a country where the poor aren't dying in the streets, too. I would be even happier living in a country where people don't quit high school, form gangs, make rap music, and engage in organized crime. Unfortunately, people are free to choose those paths. I am glad we live in a country where (still) people are held accountable for their own choices.
We're a long way from Social Darwinism, and historically, America has been a country that provides opportunity and freedom, it does not guarantee food and medicine. I'm ok with people who want that to be a new part of the equation, but get used to being told that it is not American, because, historically, it is not.