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So, here it is. All of it:
Support your own damn self and leave me the hell alone.
I really appreciate the sentiment. I honestly do. But, just a modest, hypothetical question:
Let's say, tomorrow, certain segments of the stock market crashes (just the ones you invested in), and in a wildly improbable fluke, all your personal banks and insurance companies and such go belly up, and you and your spouse and almost all of your relatives die in a fire which consumes your home(s), and your remaining family member - one you are fond of, I'd hesitate to say you love them - let's say one of your children - gets dementia and is homeless and wandering the streets, living on the thoughtful, magnanimous charity of people who act like you say you believe.
After a week or so, do we still have to bury the body after they let him or her starve to death? Or would it be okay if the rest of us resort to cannibalism to take care of most of the clean up?
I ask because I think I'll suggest that there will be some extra salt incoming when I tell you that this idea is also one that an NPC pretending to be a person would express. Your salt will make your child's flesh just pop in the pan.
As I said, I, and the Bible, concur with much of your sentiment - "if you will not work, you shall not eat". If your target is the multi-hundreds of layers of government "employees" and "managers" and "overlords", if your target is the multi-millions of those who demand socialism but only if it includes those who are unwilling to give up their money. (After all, one can just _have_ socialism. They and their 20m favorite people can get together, put all your stuff in a pot, and to each according to their needs. You can literally 3d print your way to a worker's paradise. This sort of thing even works a while, if you're like religious communities, it works for a long time (until you descend into heresy and homosexuality and you have to be suppressed). If you're like the Soviet, it works for about 5 minutes until someone says "I need a gun." (Ok, here's your gun). "Also, I need that cow for milk." (But the other person needs that cow) (tap-rack-bang) "He no longer needs it for milk." .... "Oh, and I also need a pine box to bury your child. Would you be so kind?"