As I experience it, these people handwave the social consequences of their politics away with "personal responsibility". The system they envisage is good and fair by definition so if children are starving you should blame the parents for being lazy/smoking cigarettes/being irresponsible.
It's kind of a moral version of the well-known economic principle of privatising profits and socialising losses. Instead here any averse effects are explained by moral shortcomings of individuals.
As I experience it, these people handwave the social consequences of their politics away with "personal responsibility". The system they envisage is good and fair by definition so if children are starving you should blame the parents for being lazy/smoking cigarettes/being irresponsible.
It's kind of a moral version of the well-known economic principle of privatising profits and socialising losses. Instead here any averse effects are explained by moral shortcomings of individuals.