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Society is not your family. Your responsibilities are very different in both. But the main issue is who decides what your social obligations are? Helping peopl
by afsina 11y ago
Society is not your family. Your responsibilities are very different in both. But the main issue is who decides what your social obligations are? Helping people is a moral issue and right for "me", but may not be a moral issue for somebody else.
So, I disagree, this is not an obligation. I know that this is the debate of the likes of Rawls versus Rothbard. Just could not help replying.
- Frondo 11y agoWell, ultimately, we all decide what our social obligations are, because we live in a democratic society. We discuss, we persuade, we elect, we vote, and so on. The conversation never really ends, and each new generation chooses again for itself where to draw the line. But things, historically, have gone pretty good for everyone, the more the rich chip in, and pretty badly for almost everyone(though better for the rich, of course), the less they do. Now, I get that a lot of people decide "these are the principles I think are important, and damn the consequences," but I think that's silly--if a principle I like ends up leading to a crummy society in one way or another (e.g. I don't think pollution should be regulated, full stop, and suddenly everyone has shitty air quality), then I'm going to rethink that principle. Others stick to their guns no matter what.