Society's Restraint To Social Reform

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to the social (racial
prejudice in the job market) and economic (collapse in the market demand for
their often limited skills due to an economic recession or shift in technology).
The Permissive View reveals that all participants in society are deserving of
the unconditional legal right to social security without any relation to the
individual's behaviour. It is believed that any society which can afford to
supply the basic needs of life to every individual of that society but does not,
can be accused of imposing life-long deprivation or death to those needy
individuals. The reason for the needy individual being in that situation,
whether they are willing to work, or their actions while receiving support have
almost no weight in their ability to acquire this welfare support. This view
is presently not withheld in society, for if it was, the stereotype of the
'Typical Welfare Recipient' would be unheard of.
On the other side, the Individualists believe that generous aid to ...

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working, learning and child
rearing; and secondly, that both parents should assume all applicable
responsibilities of raising their children.(5)
In combination of the two previous views, the Puritan View basically
involves the idea that within a society which has the ability to sufficiently
support all of it's individuals, all participants in the society should have
the legal right to Government supplied welfare benefits. However, the
individual's initiative to work is held strongly to this right. Potential
welfare recipients are classified as a responsibility of the Government. The
resources required to support the needy are taken by means of taxation from the
earnings of the ...

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