You’re interpreting the Holy Scriptures to your own liking. Love your neighbor as yourself implies just what it says. When a person refuses to work, there is something wrong with the social system, whereby the motives for working are not great enough to get some people to work.
Respectively, I disagree with you here. You are putting all the burden on ‘society’ and absolving the individual of any culpability. The social system is not always at fault.
What do you with the mentally ill, who are examined and found capable of giving informed consent, who refuse to take medication, refuse to work, refuse to accept what the social system is perfectly willing to give? How can ‘the system’ succeed when it is not the system who refuses to give work/care etc, but the individual? What possible motivation can this person accept?
And what of those who refuse to work because the charity of others supplies their needs and they simply don’t wish to give back? They’re selfish, true, but again, it’s not the SYSTEM which has failed them. The ‘average person’ if you will chooses to work because he wishes to, or because he MUST, to gain food, clothing and shelter for him and his family. .or a combination.
But for some, that isn’t enough. They would rather starve than accept charity.
For some, it isn’t enough. If they don’t find a job which they truly like, they would rather go on welfare than do ‘menial work.’
For some, it isn’t enough. They simply don’t want to work at all. They would rather play video games all day, ‘hang out’, smoke weed, drink, and pretty much have all they wish, when they wish, doing what they wish.
It is not LOVING, for those for whom the NORMAL actions and understandings are either clouded by mental disease, or are clouded by addictions, or who simply refuse to be productive members of society through total selfishness, to just ‘let them have their needs met’ without them providing something in return, or just letting them ‘fall through the cracks’. In such cases, the Christian virtues of love and charity ought to easily override their refusal to work. These people are in need of help, and are in need of self-help consoling. All humans are entitled to a certain amount of dignity, and caring for the basic needs of such individuals are warranted. The value structure of people with insensitivity toward those unwilling to work need to change, and replaced with some degree of humanitarianism and brotherly love. The way you’re talking, these people should be allowed to starve to death; how inhumane and a crime against humanity! Why not just round them up and exterminate them? Again, to simply allow such people to starve to death is to overlook the real problem inherent in any economic system that does not properly motivate all of its citizens.
Trying to intimidate me by saying ‘more foolishness’ and ‘get real’ does nothing to further your weak argument.
If everyone were Catholic, those in need would be cared for without the need for government intervention. Instead voluntary institutions would be set up, neighbors would help their neighbors, goods would flow from one to another in the most appropriate ways!