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[elfs]

"The United Nations is made up of both free democracies and totalitarian dictatorships. It is institutionally incapable and constitutionally forbidden from preferring one over the other."

"The liberal principle of neutrality among conceptions of the good life demands that government not favor the industrious over the lazy."

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[jaffa-tamarin.livejournal.com]

Government should not favor anyone. It is in the nature of things that industrious people will tend to take more advantage of opportunities offered by government (or anyone else). This is the fault of the lazy people, not of government.

I fail to see what this has to do with any liberal principle, though.

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

The problem with this is that governments inevitably do favor someone; that's in the very nature of government policy. The only question is whether or not that favoritism should be explicit or should be allowed to ride under the radar. Personally, I think governments should discourage laziness by passively resisting helping the lazy maintain their lifestyle.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/dominic-m-/]

ummmh how about the liberal principal of not favoring any group/s of people over another.liberals are fairness experts in the extreme. Thats my feeling on it anyways.

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