EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty: "Why then do people support the interventions they do, while apathetically ignoring countless other forms of human suffering and degradation? For the most part, people support the interventions they have because they have them. It's not about the severity or treatability of the problems. It's about conforming to our secular religion. Our society says that poverty among American seniors would be a terrible problem. So we have massive social programs to prevent it. How do we know this "disaster" is especially pressing in a world so full of suffering? We don't. We don't even try to do a fair accounting. Instead, we make stuff up, and shame anyone who subsequently furrows his brow. Simple as that."
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