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Well fed, well educated kids will one day be looking after you or the services in your community. Kids with a poor upbringing may well be a further cost on your
by ljf 4y ago
Well fed, well educated kids will one day be looking after you or the services in your community. Kids with a poor upbringing may well be a further cost on your community now and in the future.
Don't you want to spend a little now for a better society tomorrow?
- giantg2 4y ago"Don't you want to spend a little now for a better society tomorrow?" This is definitely a fallacy. Everyone will agree, but it's vague. Of course we would pay more if it meant a better society. How much is "more"? What is "better"? Is the money actually going to the cause or just supporting the administrative bureaucracy around it? Are there better alternatives? This is common in politics - make a commonsense or emotional statement that is vague. Yes, people agree with the sentiment or idea, but the implementations can vary wildly and find only partisan support.
- ljf 4y agoOK, do you agree (or disagree) that kids poorly fed and poorly supported today, are likely to be a bigger cost/lower economic benefit to society in the future? All other things being equal.
- giantg2 4y agoNow you've changed the context from the original comment, and still have injected more ambiguity as to what "support" is. At the conceptual level, I agree. That was also true at the last conceptual-level question. Again, it comes down to the actual implementation details.