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Originally Posted by Glice
It does reveal the hole in Tory thinking, to my mind. Obviously, we'd all love the society where everyone helps each other out, and it's not necessarily the government's place to impose or intercede in culture. However, the least-privileged members of society are the ones that get fucked over the most, and the ones that require greatest help. The legions of doleites, terminal non-workers and benefit scroungers are definitely a problem and a drain on society (they are a minority as well though) but you don't get rid of that problem by just shuttling them to another area in the hope they take their poverty with them.
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Well yeah, obviously nobody likes the people who don't contribute to society. Everybody has their own personal responsibilities and I'm in no way propagating a nanny state. But sending those who can't keep up with society out in the cold shows a serious lack of humanism in my mind.