Reply #64: This judge's opinion is an excuse not to provide a social safety net... [View All]

...public education, etc. It's saying that the gov't can tell people likely to produce people who would rely on the government not to have children. I'm not down with that.

I believe it is society's obligation to provide every child with an equal opportunity because that creates the greatest social wealth. It untaps the genious and the capacity to work and contribute to society that's in everyone, including the children of crack addicts. And by untapping that capacity, society will have the wealth to provide those services to other people.

The thing that you assume is my false premise is the thing to which I think society should committ itself and I feel this judge's opinion is cop-out so that society doesn't have to provide these things not only to this woman but to all poor children.