If you engage, they win. There's a whole lot more going on here than that, which you could see if you weren't engaged in "We're better than that!"
You're enabling destructive behavior. You're part of the problem. What I assume are good intentions on your part are making you blind.
Ok. What is your alternate option if you were to institute it tomorrow?
Yes, by helping the weak, the dumb, the mentally ill you will get more of it. It is not efficient. It will weigh the productive down. I agree with all that 100%. IF we were machines, they would all be gone.
But we are not machines and know there is something inherently spiritually wrong with abandoning the weak. Even if we are programmed to accept it. I’m sure the Spartans who left smaller babies out to die did not feel completely good about it.
We now recognize that people and their culture are fully intertwined. Even to the point of alerting their DNA. We have generations of people who were culturally abandoned and their growing mental illness has been allowed to fester and inbreed within their group. A gigantic lower class with zero concept of anything we discuss on FR. A population someone practical would call “animals”.
What do you do with entire cities of people who are now so culturally removed? It’s easy to point fingers. But we have to do SOMETHING besides killing them. Our only civilized option, IMO, is to materially help them AND culturally reconnect them with society until they no longer need help.
If you don’t agree, what is your third option? Throw millions into the street and hope for the best?