(October 2, 2012 at 10:36 am)Tiberius Wrote: No libertarian proposes the abolishment of all social services. We propose that they are left to private businesses and charities to control, rather than the government.
The problems with this are, you end up with nice middle class people making often uninformed decisions on who is or is not worthy. The deserving and undeserving poor. If you only allow medical criteria so doctors have to decide, the problem is that mental illness is not a black and white issue and as such it will throw up horrible inconsistencies. It would be nice if everybody fitted in nice neat criteria, but they don't, and they change.
This is the problem with agenda driven politics of both the right and left, it would be nice if we could divide the good from the bad, but actually it is very hard if not impossible to find any clear division. And as such the administration becomes completely arbitrary. For me personally I tend to think a better approach is to concentrate on how a system is administered. To my mind it is one of the real problems with the UK there is a concentration on pulling to right or left, but the actual job of administration is done woefully badly by all parties.
