Quote Originally Posted by ensign_lee
Back to the original post, the only thing that I consider "legitimate" is a veteran who was disabled in combat fighting for this country.

On another topic, honestly, that's the only disability that I think that the state should have to pay for...period. Everybody else is just a drain on resources with no corresponding benefit to society. Oftentimes, I do wish that we lived in more of a spartan society where babies with defects were immediately "taken care of" so that they didn't drain the resources of society throughout their entire lifetimes.

But...that's another topic. Back to the original post, there's a good example.
There was a society like this... It was Nazi Germany. In order to clear more money for the war they killed off the mentally ill or used them for experiments. Then they moved to the Gypsies, prisons, and eventually on to the Jewish Community. I think you need to be very careful what you wish for.

A society is judged on how it treats its unfortunate, sick and elderly. Using bankruptcy as an example, the largest demographics declaring bankrutpcy are the sick and the elderly, not people trying to scam credit cards.