Helping the poor is justified if it promotes the common good and commands consent of the people. Other people's lives are not yours to dispose of. You have no right to the results of their efforts. B. Welfare programs don't work. So, people complain of injustice, exert political pressure, and programs expand.
Welfare rewards people for being poor.
C. Eliminating most welfare programs would not cause serious harm. No one is anyone else's master, and no one is anyone else's slave. Other men's and women's lives are not yours to dispose of. No human being should be a nonvoluntary mortgage on the life of another. B. Purpose of government 1.