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Social Destruction
Under the Guise of Compassion
[The letter below was read on CBC's popular radio program, THIS MORNING, on Mar.
1, 1998.]
Re: Avril Benoit's interview with Bill Watson and Mel Watkins -- Feb. 22, 1998.
Dear Avril,
Your interview with Mel Watkins and William Watson was a perfect illustration of
how evil gets perpetrated throughout the world. When Mr. Watson tried to defend recent
cutbacks in government spending, Mr. Watkins accused him of lacking compassion for
anyone who depends on government handouts.
This is the magic bleeding-heart formula used by so-called humanitarians whenever
somebody opposes government handouts. Such mentalities have no concept of individual
rights; they see people not as individuals with the right to pursue their own lives
and happiness but as slaves to be sacrificed to anyone's needs. The more ambitious
and productive a person is, the more he or she is to be punished for it.
Whether Mr. Watkins admits it or not, the principle underlying all his arguments
is the same principle underlying communism: from each according to his ability to
each according to his need. As an "economist," Mr. Watkins should know
that communism leads to the destruction of everyone -- including the needy. People
who are treated as slaves won't produce much -- why should they? But somehow he believes
that as long as he claims to be a champion of the needy he can safely get away with
self-righteously advocating social and economic suicide.
This is how evil gets perpetrated in the world. First, people are told that self-interest
is evil whereas self-sacrifice or altruism is good. Then, people are politically
deprived of their right to pursue their own life and happiness, and forcibly sacrificed
to others by their government. Eventually, power lusters like Stalin, Hitler, Pol
Pot and Saddam Hussein take over and destroy everything and everyone.
If this is what Mel Watkins and other so-called humanitarians advocate in the name
of compassion -- then I say: to hell with their compassion.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1998 Glenn Woiceshyn.
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