Does the moral majority believe that poverty and homelessness are moral issues?

Fairness/classlessness/egalitarianism is neither a law of physics nor a law of nature. Some approximation of egalitarianism may be a goal of a civilized society, but it is impossible to obtain with absolute certainty; there are too many variables, known, unknown, and unknowable. And, the behavior that is incentivized/rewarded (collection of welfare, collection of unemployment payments, exceptional performance, etc.) can be expected to result in an increase of that behavior.

The US constitution guarantees due process (equality under law), not equality of outcome. Drdr You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” … The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” … Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Socialism is the Philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." … I you’re not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at 40 you have no brain.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher (1925- ) Egalitarianism In his latest book The Illusions of Egalitarianism … Kekes argues … that belief in egalitarianism rests on illusions that prevent people from facing unpleasant truths. … Perhaps the most dangerous of the many illusions of egalitarianism is the belief that all people should be treated with equal consideration by the government.

This is an illusion because no reasonable person can believe that criminals and their victims, terrorists and their hostages, benevolent and vicious people should be treated with equal consideration. People differ greatly in their moral standing, in how just, honest, altruistic, dependable they are, or how much they contribute to their society. The egalitarian belief that the government should ignore these moral differences is utterly unreasonable.

Ignoring these differences is dangerous because one primary responsibility of the government is to protect the conditions on which its citizens' well-being depends. People who are unjust, dishonest, selfish, undependable, or who take advantage of their society without contributing to it undermine everyone's well-being. To make this into a policy, as egalitarians do, is to favor a course of action that cannot but lead to the disintegration of the society that follows it.

… Most academics are egalitarians. They believe that egalitarianism is the morally right political position. From this follows that anyone disagreeing with them is either immoral or irrational.

The egalitarian intolerance of dissenting students or colleagues reflects this moralistic bullying. They discriminate against and attempt to silence dissenting students and junior academics that depend on egalitarians for grades or for their jobs. ... As to bad political arrangements, in our society at least, people have many ways of responding to them: they can work to reform them, leave the country, escape into private life, or prevail despite of hindrances.

Countless people have done well even though they started out in poverty or discrimination, with poor education, with less chance than others. The remarkable thing about American society is that the opportunity to prevail over hardship is available to a larger number of people than ever before in history or in any other society. The egalitarians who are outraged, for instance, by poverty rate of 13% ignore the other side that for the first time ever we have a society where 87% live in moderate comfort.

The typical ratio in history has always been closer to the reverse. http://www.philosophynews.com/common/tex...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.