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Thread #168430   Message #4154231
Posted By: Steve Shaw
30-Sep-22 - 05:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Er, the benefits are largely there so that the baby may be brought up in a decent and humanitarian manner, as opposed to an early life of grinding poverty and instability. We do not run society on the premise that we decide who is deserving and who isn't, in our high-flown opinions. The NHS treats many morbidly obese people for diabetes and heart disease, or people who have picked up a nice dose of the clap after some careless sleeping-around, and doesn't turn away people with cirrhosis after a lifetime of heavy drinking. Many people with disabilities might be regarded as "having brought it on themselves" by people of a certain way of thinking. Maybe you'd care to draw up a comprehensive table for us of who should get what and who shouldn't, based on your mighty powers of judgementalism...