[rogerv]

Some of this can be enforced surely. We have laws (in fact, a constitutional amendment) against slavery. And we have laws against abusive treatment in the workplace by superiors.

As for the enforceability of beneficence, you are right for the most part. We do not have laws forcing people to be good Samaritans. But, on the question to which we are heading at some point, there is a question about the production of public goods by government with our tax dollars. It is a question we ought to discuss: which goods count as public goods we would want government to produce, even if we were not direct beneficiaries?

[KJacob]

which goods count as public goods we would want government to produce, even if we were not direct beneficiaries?

The military.

[TChris]

...there is a question about the production of public goods by government with our tax dollars. It is a question we ought to discuss: which goods count as public goods we would want government to produce, even if we were not direct beneficiaries?

The government does not produce; it consumes. The government is managerial overhead. To the degree that the government provides services to the public, they are those our elected representatives have, correctly or incorrectly, deemed broadly necessary enough to be implemented with tax funding. The overwhelming majority of those, IMO, were established either fraudulently or with a Communism-flavored intention.