Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Poor People Message-ID: <1067@kontron.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Sep-86 13:12:19 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.1067 Posted: Sat Sep 13 13:12:19 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Sep-86 02:06:36 EDT References: <343@ge-dab.UUCP> <1937@udenva.UUCP> <174@gouldsd.UUCP> <1137@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA Lines: 17 > In article <174@gouldsd.UUCP> mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: > > > >Whatever happened to Social Darwinism ? > > Most of us rejected it because we realize that we are indeed our > brother's keeper. > > ---peter osgood--- Being "our brother's keeper" is a wonderful idea -- as long as people don't start becoming lazy just to avoid having to work. This is the heart of the opposition to making "welfare" (in quotes because the term is nebulous, and refers to a large group of only vaguely related programs) available to those who are able to work. (Especially since work is readily available.) Clayton E. Cramer