I do not know what this means. It seems like advice, though, so thank you for the advice!
Ah, I see your concern. You believe that those, like myself, who want to eliminate the SS feel maliciousness and enmity towards the dole-wards of the SS. This is understandable, since you see them as benefiting from the SS, and we're wanting to take away that beneficial influence. They get sent checks, right? How could that not be seen as benefiting?
But, crazy as it sounds, I do see the SS as not beneficial to them at all. It is not a blessing but a bane. Just handing someone money every month, for nothing, can destroy a person. It takes away their independence. That's unquestionable. Supporters of the SS just don't realize what an important virtue independence is, and how much of all the other aspects of a happy, well-balanced life rest on the foundation of and are wrapped up in individual independence. It's the same thing with the young, of course -- parents who spoil a child are ruining the child. Some of these older children staying at their parents house into their twenties should be told to move out. There's a place for tough love.
So I do not see doling out money/food-and-board/other-consideration for nothing to Person X as being helpful to Person X; I see it as destructive to him. It forms a relationship of co-dependency instead of a healthy relationship based on mutual independence. This is true of the 28-year-old ambition-less perpetual teenager laying at home playing video games, it is true of the black single mother living in the projects, and it is true of the old or disabled person living the retired life. Just because if I were the parent I might cut off the kid doesn't mean I wouldn't love him. Just because as a taxpayer I definitely want to cut off the single mother doesn't mean I don't care about her plight -- yes, a very real plight she would have ahead of her if the checks were cut off. Just because as a human being who cares about morality I want to cut off the retired individual from his stream of stolen funds doesn't mean I don't care about him. It isn't because of any malice that one wants to cut them off, it's because of love, and because it's the right thing to do. In the long run, you will be helping the dole-wards by freeing them from their wardship. They won't feel like that at the time. We can see that right here in this thread. No, they will yell and curse at you, throw a tantrum, and claim that you must hate them, or you would never be so cruel. But years later, they will probably thank you. You loved them enough to cut them off. You had the courage to do what was best, unswayed by their outrage and their demands.
This is why the SS debate goes nowhere most of the time. People bring emotional baggage to the debate where it really doesn't belong.
