Are the rich more virtuous than the poor?

[Bubba_Switzler]

We all exercise prudential judgement,…

The main thing I learned from this thread is that there are some who are very uncomfortable with this fact of life.

I am tempted to start a new thread on this subject to obtain a broader perspective on this.

 

[graciew]

Let us assume that these observations are correct.

In the good ol’ days you knew that if you didn’t help then there was a good chance that this person wouldn’t be helped.

ok.Bubba,let´s take that the mere thought of doing away with welfare may become for a large amount of people depriving them of the only help they have.And the mere idea becomes an unbearable threat for those who have worked hard and happen to have been dissmissed from a car factory let´s say.in a spot of US where jobs are scarce if any.which is not an unrealistic case.
Now,these people belong to a little community where we belong.How can prudential jugement of neighbours be applied here so as to start building trust and community based help?Or how can we better help here?There will be all kind of people.
But let´s say too that we do not know if X X will do away with welfare any time soon .So we can start from scratch.How would you start?

 

[graciew]

The main thing I learned from this thread is that there are some who are very uncomfortable with this fact of life.

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My perspective is that I can write a whole book with different issues in my own little community.But not in general.And many of my “yes” "no"answers will be conditioned to my experience.I guess that is probably why Murray did not draw conclusions,I do not underestimate this.
Welfare is a very delicate matter,and it may have devastated every notion of work in my little community,but there is politics,corruption,no law, and real profound recession involved that that does not apply here.There is no such one size fits all…We got involved from head to toes.I learnt things I had never in my worst nightmares could have imagined. Did you know that people have their homes/(built of tin and cardboard) taken if they accept a weekly job for instance?When they return,someone else may be living there. Did you know that moms fear their daughters are raped if mom is not at home when they come back from school?And yes,there´s tons of people who do not do a thing,and gangs,and crime and they vote…
I think that my prudential judgement will move in a very specific direction.There´s people who need and want to get out of there,now.Honestly,I do not care if they have kids out of wedlock,have studied or what,there´s emergency.Yet my experience may not be yours and there should be room for both.
I think there are cases,what do you think?

 

[Birdpreacher]

Of COurse poor people are morally inferior

 

[Lochias]

The main thing I learned from this thread is that there are some who are very uncomfortable with this fact of life.

I am tempted to start a new thread on this subject to obtain a broader perspective on this.

I think it’s differing definitions of “prudential judgement” that’s the problem, here. Or complete and utter stretching to silly proportions thereof, in this case.

 

[Lochias]

Well, I’m glad to know that God talks to you. That must make moral choices a lot easier.

Indeed. God talks to me, and Murray talks to you. That must make moral choices a lot easier, once a good deal of the morals are eliminated.

Yes, some decisions are more difficult than others. That’s why God gave you that gray matter between your ears.

None of your own decisions sound very difficult, just cold and clinical. Must be Potentate Murry’s influence. Tell me, is resistance really futile these days?

 

[Matilda_Bennett]

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