(October 10, 2012 at 5:41 pm)Tino Wrote: About half the country would argue that abortions do a disservice to those receiving the abortion, both mother and child. But I support the right of abortion because I believe complex questions are ultimately up to the individual most effected. Likewise I would leave this question up to the inheritee and inheritor.Agreed on the abortion front. I've spent a good amount of time amongst privileged trust-fund babies. In my experience they are mainly comprised of self-important assholes, who think because daddy or granddaddy left me money I am better and more important than others. Bad parenting, for sure. But also unambitious. If socialism creates a class of people who don't want to better themselves because they live off the government. The ultimate form of capitalism has the same result, just substitute trust-fund for government, and it doesn't benefit most people.
(October 10, 2012 at 5:41 pm)Tino Wrote: I believe in the right of ownership of wealth, whether that wealth is in the form of money, children, real estate, artwork, intellectual content, health or anything else that is valued. I don't agree that government should be able to look at a citizen and just decide you've got too much of something other people want, and take it away.Children and health, amongst these items that you listed, are not owned and therefore cannot be held. I have kids, it doesn't mean I own them or can even control something as simple as their behavior at the supermarket. All I can do is guide, reward good behavior, punish bad behavior, and hope for the best. Same with health. Even healthy adults die suddenly from natural causes. It's not a commodity. And when it's your time to go, no amount of advanced medicine can save you.
As for the other items on your list, yes, the concept of ownership does apply. But ownership should not be in perpetuity. The amount of wealth a few people have amassed is obscene. It's not helping anyone just sitting in a bank vault, spread it around. There's only this one life, why not make it better for everyone? The wealthy would still be well-off in comparison to the masses, I doubt they would even miss it.
