You make the assumption that we have a work and merit based society at all. I don't agree with that, but for the sake of argument, let's run with it. Even if y

You make the assumption that we have a work and merit based society at all. I don't agree with that, but for the sake of argument, let's run with it. Even if you have a work and merit based society, you still have to provide the necessities of life to those that are unable to provide for themselves; the sick, the elderly, the unable. This includes those that do not have any abilities your society values. If you have a society that makes good use of it's people and is able to provide everyone with a position of merit, you're fine. But as soon as you have mass of people that are not able to work and provide merit, you've got a problem. Because you have to somehow stop them from taking what they need anyway. You can do that with police and the military, but in the long run this is not stable. Given that I don't think that we have a work and merit based society, my conclusion is that we have even more of a responsibility towards those left behind.