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Because liberatrians are self-centered, they just look for a moral narrative to justify it to others.

• dnautics 11y ago
  Socialists are self-centered. They demand things that they want from other people. To the extent that they want government to pay to take care of others, it's because they don't want to reach into their own pockets and pay help out themselves and "rich people" are seen as a collective resource to which somehow they are morally entitled to. Libertarians, by contrast, are permissive to selfishness, which means they tolerate, say objectivists, but when they act in pro-social fashion they mean it because its their time and their money they're putting forward. Perhaps I experience selection bias, but I know many libertarians who volunteer to build homes for the needy, feed the poor, and have set up organizations to support homeless camps. By contrast, a smaller fraction of the liberals I know would ever do such things; that's the provenance of the state.
  • Daishiman 11y ago
    No, it's because, honestly, educated people who understand how governments work know that economies of scale are necessary to implement effective policies that help the poor. Charity is nice and all, but most charity is tremendously inefficient, and cannot, sustainably, work on the sorts of multi-decade efforts that are needed by people with real issues to create effective change. It's great that people volunteer on home building and feeding, but again: if you want to end child malnutrition, have effective school lunches in poor areas. There's not enough volunteers in the planet to do that effectively.
    • brandonmenc 11y ago
      > Charity is nice and all, but most charity is tremendously inefficient Have you ever even been to a welfare office? A paragon of inefficiency.