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Don't you think though, that the larger a society becomes and the more urbanized a society becomes, there becomes no choice but to adopt social programs that take care of the masses of people that are poor or handicapped? After all, would a good society just let these people starve on the street like dogs? The church used to take care of the poor, but with the demise of the church's roll in the community, the government is almost forced to step in and try to solve the problem. There are those who take advantage of such a system...those that just refuse to work, but isn't that inevitable? I have a feeling, not a definite belief yet, that from the moment any modern society that believes in certain human rights are formed, it moves toward a socialist state.
The distinction must be made between a society that cares about people and one that does not. The society that cares about people will feel so badly about the "less fortunate" that they will strive to help these people...the problem arises in the fact that people do not wish to help directly, but are more than willing to let the ruling party step in and do it for them, but when they themselves eventually become the beneficiary of the help, they are then trapped into giving the ruling party whatever the ruling party wants (i.e. loyalty, votes, taxes) in order to survive. The downfall of this, obviously, is that corruption in the ruling party or government will attempt to make all citizens dependent on the government in order to control them.
An uncaring society simply empowers a dictator to run things however he sees fit, but ignores the problems of society such as poverty. A starving person simply starves; he is not helped as in a caring society. The government still controls the people, only with violence instead of manipulation.
The main fear I have is that in an uncaring society, a person knows he wants freedom, land, money, or influence but cannot get these things without revolt, however, and I believe more dangerous, in the caring society people feel content if they are made to believe things are OK, if they are taken care of, and if they are always distracted my many forms of entertainment, but in these things--they are controlled. A society like this is willing to be controlled, it has allowed itself to be controlled, and in that sense, they have given up all of the freedom and liberty they overthrew the uncaring society to obtain.
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