The “restraint” should be the natural (bad) consequences for (bad) behaviors and choices. (Do something stupid and get hurt - spend the rest of your life having to live with the injury - without “disability”. Let your daughter run around unsupervised, you may have to take care of an unexpected grandchild for the next 18 years.)
When our society subsidizes and alleviates those bad consequences, that’s when you get the huge moral decline that you see.
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Absolutely right, Mr. B!
What we have today are iatrogenic social disorders, caused by the very government progams supposedly designed to alleviate them.
“War is the health of the State” - the modern progressive state has nothing to war on but its own population.
This became patently obvious to me after reading Dr. Sowell’s Basic Econ book.
Economics is nothing but analyzing the results of incentives and disincentives.
And the disincentive to immoral behavior is its very high likelihood of resulting in bad consequences.
God’s way or the hard way, in essence.