I believe it was Bastiat who said that Government is that fiction where the people believe they can live at the expense of all the others. You are right, it should be basic to human nature, but human nature, being what it is, seeks the easiest path to fulfill its own desires. The first immorality of government is the coerced redistribution of wealth from one group to another.
You would think that something so simple and basic to human nature, would be easily understood by those who want more government handout programs.
I believe it was Bastiat who said that Government is that fiction where the people believe they can live at the expense of all the others. You are right, it should be basic to human nature, but human nature, being what it is, seeks the easiest path to fulfill its own desires. The first immorality of government is the coerced redistribution of wealth from one group to another.