Someone has to carry the burden. It's either the children of bad parents, or the children of good parents.
Being a bad parent is hereditary to a huge degree, which means that punishing children of good parents to make up for bad parents' faults is clearly a terrible idea. The people you're trying to help will more than likely just squander it anyway, so all you're doing is take away resources and opportunities from people likely to multiply those for the next generation and giving them to people who will flush them down the shitter and complain they weren't given even more.
If its hereditary to the extent you are saying we have almost no amount of free will to become better.
The idea of equality of opportunity is impartiality. Not making moral decisions nor judgements. Utilitarian logic. Once we start saying "bad parents make bad seeds, no point helping them" we have created a cycle where they have no reason to not be the worst people possible. They will live up to those expectations because it doesn't matter, the stigma will hang over their heads forever.
The thing is, I agree with what you are saying in theory. The problem is building a society like that just creates a caste system, and becomes a rat race to the bottom.
Even worse, your enemies will be in power one day. Letting this loophole be open just opens it up to be used on you. Wokesters would consider "having guns" or "voting Trump" to make you a "bad parent" with all the consequences therein.
What I'm suggesting is impartiality. Nobody should be forced to uplift (or finance the uplifting of) anyone else. If someone wants to flush their own money down the drain by spending it on ghetto rats, well, go knock yourselves out, but I refuse to participate in fruitless waste. I'm convinced that we could have been terraforming Mars right now if it wasn't for the welfare state. Instead... https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/732/227/6c4.png
A "caste system" is perfectly normal and healthy as long as it's not enforced by the state. Hierarchies form naturally. People aren't clones, some people are, by nature, worse than others, and it's good that these people are scrounging for food in dumpsters and sleeping under bridges. It's more just than fruitlessly trying to help them by taking from better people and wasting it on them.
Don't worry, I'm perfectly familiar with the "imagine if your enemies were in power" line of thought, and I understand how important it is. My line of thought works perfectly fine if my enemies are in power, because I'm not asking for any preferential treatment, I'm asking for the exact opposite. It's fine as long as they abide by the same rules; the eternal problem is that they will never do that, because my rules are based on inescapable, objective reality, and their philosophy goes directly against that - which is why, in a sane country, of which there are currently none as far as I'm aware, someone like Augusto Pinochet would be considered a centrist. Because that's what he was, really; throwing belligerent pinkos out of helicopters is simply the sane thing to do.
Someone has to carry the burden. It's either the children of bad parents, or the children of good parents.
Being a bad parent is hereditary to a huge degree, which means that punishing children of good parents to make up for bad parents' faults is clearly a terrible idea. The people you're trying to help will more than likely just squander it anyway, so all you're doing is take away resources and opportunities from people likely to multiply those for the next generation and giving them to people who will flush them down the shitter and complain they weren't given even more.
If its hereditary to the extent you are saying we have almost no amount of free will to become better.
The idea of equality of opportunity is impartiality. Not making moral decisions nor judgements. Utilitarian logic. Once we start saying "bad parents make bad seeds, no point helping them" we have created a cycle where they have no reason to not be the worst people possible. They will live up to those expectations because it doesn't matter, the stigma will hang over their heads forever.
The thing is, I agree with what you are saying in theory. The problem is building a society like that just creates a caste system, and becomes a rat race to the bottom.
Even worse, your enemies will be in power one day. Letting this loophole be open just opens it up to be used on you. Wokesters would consider "having guns" or "voting Trump" to make you a "bad parent" with all the consequences therein.
What I'm suggesting is impartiality. Nobody should be forced to uplift (or finance the uplifting of) anyone else. If someone wants to flush their own money down the drain by spending it on ghetto rats, well, go knock yourselves out, but I refuse to participate in fruitless waste. I'm convinced that we could have been terraforming Mars right now if it wasn't for the welfare state. Instead... https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/732/227/6c4.png
A "caste system" is perfectly normal and healthy as long as it's not enforced by the state. Hierarchies form naturally. People aren't clones, some people are, by nature, worse than others, and it's good that these people are scrounging for food in dumpsters and sleeping under bridges. It's more just than fruitlessly trying to help them by taking from better people and wasting it on them.
Don't worry, I'm perfectly familiar with the "imagine if your enemies were in power" line of thought, and I understand how important it is. My line of thought works perfectly fine if my enemies are in power, because I'm not asking for any preferential treatment, I'm asking for the exact opposite. It's fine as long as they abide by the same rules; the eternal problem is that they will never do that, because my rules are based on inescapable, objective reality, and their philosophy goes directly against that - which is why, in a sane country, of which there are currently none as far as I'm aware, someone like Augusto Pinochet would be considered a centrist. Because that's what he was, really; throwing belligerent pinkos out of helicopters is simply the sane thing to do.