This is a gross and dehumanizing view because you built a gross and dehumanizing strawman. Do you connect on a personal level with American conservatives in rea

This is a gross and dehumanizing view because you built a gross and dehumanizing strawman. Do you connect on a personal level with American conservatives in real life? The many I know are compassionate people at an individual level, and you might argue better and have a better chance of convincing people of your viewpoint if you charitably[0] interpreted their position as something like: welfare benefits should be temporary (for those who are able to work and are looking, but are temporarily unemployed) and minimal (for those who either aren't capable of working or choose not to); welfare should not "pay" better than work; and the government should prove that the redistribution of wealth they enforce to pay for welfare is in fact doing what it set out to do, instead of creating a class of permanent welfare beneficiaries who could actually be gainfully employed instead. Very few people are actually wanting "undesirable elements" to "die". [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity