| ▲ | ethbr1 14 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Society is your neighbours, your friends, your coworkers, your family, it's you and everyone around you. That's... incomplete. Society is the obligations and responsibilities collectively imposed on these people. It's indicative that part of Thatcher's intent was to remove the obligation of people to each other. More profitable when choosing to help others is instead at one's discretion... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hgomersall 13 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Really? Does she not say that explicitly? "It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation [...]" She certainly puts the framing as individualistic, but I think she very much understood the obligations are a necessary part of the system. | |||||||||||||||||
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