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A Boring Dystopia
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There's no contradiction for these people. All fetuses have a right to life and children should suffer if they don't have enough money. Shoulda worked harder at the bootstraps factory if they didn't want to eat shit their entire lives.
They max out at a 4 on Kohlberg's morality scale, ie the laws are immutable and nothing can change them. The law says that everyone should live and our system is perfect because it's our system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_moral_development
Sprinkle some smug self-satisifaction on top of this and it's a real good portrait of the Christian right. Religion is a narotic for these folks who spend their days judging others. They believe in the correct God™ and His prosperity gospel. Anyone who is poor or those who "sin" deserve their lot in life. And how are kids to learn self-reliance when they're coddled with free food? We're so weak to let our kids live in such decadent times! What's next, they won't have to pay for healthcare after they made the bad decision to get hurt or sick?
They ask how we can be so wasteful as a society while they clutch their imitation pearl necklace. Meanwhile the public's share of wealth shrinks and everyone is left to fight for the scraps. When the situation is so dire, it's easy to fight with each other than to question big business, Wall Street or the financial sector.