I've just started sidestepping the whole argument by pointing out "lazy, stupid, ugly, etc people need to eat too" and that seems to break their brains.
The amount of mental gymnastics people will go through to avoid just saying "I think the poor, disabled, elderly, and otherwise disenfranchised people should die in the street" is incredible. They recognize at some level that what they're advocating for is bad but can't go the last step to advocate for death camps or just shooting the homeless.
"People are naturally greedy and selfish. Which is why having a system which relies on a small handful of exceptionally greedy and selfish tyrants to be less greedy and selfish is the best system possible!"
I'm still looking for the 'good on paper' part :thinkin-lenin:
That, or just full blown psychopathic sociopathy.
"Inequality and greed is human nature actually."
"Some people are just better and more deserving of wealth than other."
"People are poor because they're lazy and stupid."
I've just started sidestepping the whole argument by pointing out "lazy, stupid, ugly, etc people need to eat too" and that seems to break their brains.
The amount of mental gymnastics people will go through to avoid just saying "I think the poor, disabled, elderly, and otherwise disenfranchised people should die in the street" is incredible. They recognize at some level that what they're advocating for is bad but can't go the last step to advocate for death camps or just shooting the homeless.
"People are naturally greedy and selfish. Which is why having a system which relies on a small handful of exceptionally greedy and selfish tyrants to be less greedy and selfish is the best system possible!"
I'm still looking for the 'good on paper' part :thinkin-lenin: