User blog comment:Catfishperson/American Politics Polls./@comment-26295802-20160305212034/@comment-26347028-20160306003748

Imrahil, I have so many problems with this it's unreal. Anyway, I'll focus on your conclusion.

First off, that's a big statement. Please, clarify in a different way how I'm elitist. While, yes, I believe liberalism doesn't work; I think this not because everyone isn't equal, I think this because that ideal just doesn't work.

As I've said, this is in no way discrimination. What is the alternative? Two children live extremely hard lives, because of a simple mistake that could've been avoided; or one child lives a happy life, because a simple mistake was avoided. I know which I'd prefer.

But, as I've said, they aren't. Quite on the contrary, you're advocating that we punish the poor for their mistakes, whereas I'm saying we help them undo the damage that you're trying to say should happen. And you call that just.