> We, as humans, are only entitled to what we can ourselves provide. Humans are entitled to nothing, because there is no metaphysical overseer that decides who

> We, as humans, are only entitled to what we can ourselves provide. Humans are entitled to nothing, because there is no metaphysical overseer that decides who does and does not deserve things. Entitlement is an idea created and perpetuated by human beings to justify certain kinds of behaviour. > To believe otherwise may be to hoist the black flag to take from others that which they did not earn. Capitalist labour, by its very nature, is an extractive process that takes from workers what they earned. This is the genesis of that thing known as 'profit'. I followed the same logic as you when I became a socialist bent on upturning the current social order. > But, to believe that a normal human being can do nothing and that someone else will provide for them - wholesale across our country - doesn't seem very sustainable. I don't really care about what's sensible or sustainable, compared to what is good and just. (Our current way of doing things is certainly neither!) I wouldn't feed someone because they're infirm and can't get their own food; I'd feed them because they're hungry, end of story.