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The left operates under the delusion that its policies are more caring than those of limited government. This story from Australia illustrates one of the many problems with this assumption:

THE Rudd Government is under pressure from all fronts, even Labor colleagues, to overturn a decision denying German doctor Bernhard Moeller permanent residency in Australia because his son Lukas has Down syndrome.

The Immigration Department this week rejected Dr Moeller’s application for permanent residency, saying the potential cost to the taxpayer of 13-year-old Lukas’s condition was too great.

This is not to say that the left doesn’t care at all. The point here is that the policies they claim are more caring have a dark, and largely ignored, downside. When you collectivize responsibility to care for individuals, you give the collective the right to judgments it had no business making before. All of society now gets to dictate the behaviors of individuals on the grounds that they share the cost of their decisions. This is why morality must be left to the individual and not collectivized.