I sincerely believe that in the case of the disabled, it is morally incumbent upon us to support them through government subsidies. Don't all Americans pay into disability, anyway?
3 - bring back freak shows. Before we got all PC many disabled got to travel the world and make a decent buck.
I disagree. Failing the family's ability to support them, it is the purpose of charities to do so. The fact Americans are forced via legal fiat to 'pay' into this system, is, IMHO, itself an IMMORAL act.
It would help, however if our charities weren't being regulated into extinction.
One must wonder how old you are to have narrowed it down to those two choices. I grew up in the '50s before the family had deteriorated due to "liberal" influences. Families took care of their own to the best of their ability and charities helped out when someone couldn't manage. There are more sane choices than the two you proffer and they don't just spring from a moral and Christian society - they also have the tendency to help expand such a society. Death or the Government is exactly what the Leftist Commies want the People to think of as the two alternatives.
If programs designed for the disabled actually screened recipients there would be far fewer on disability, but it seems many who have worked the system of welfare for years know how to scream until they get what they want. I worked with a patient once who was paralyzed from the neck down who took the initiative to get a list of shut in persons and call them every morning to make certain they were okay. She felt that was her “job” to make receiving disability herself okay in her mind. She believed everyone should contribute something.
I am well old enough to remember how families used to care for disabled members but today families simply will not do that. So what do some here who profess to be prolife suggest to do about sweet disabled person maybe with CP and a 2 year old mentality when the family dumps them in a home?