
Originally Posted by
Wheeze
Altruism can never be evil, merely abused. The truth is that, in your scenario, the person with the one broken leg is likely to survive but the one with 2 broken legs is at risk of dying. Do the right thing. Save the life and worry about patching up the problems of the living later. Only that way will you be able to sleep at night (if you have any scrap of conscience at all!).
Please don't equate fat cats with business men. Thats as biased a few as assuming that all less well-off are scroungers! There is good and bad at both ends of the spectrum and lots in the middle too. Advocating selfishness as a first law of looking after yourself merely plays into the hands of the bad.
Agreed, the bad are doing very well living off the arrangements made for the genuinely needy but the job of society and government is to strive to minimise that without diminishing the greater good of continuing that support. It's all part of the democratic process.