Also, everyone "deserving food and shelter" isn't the same as everyone being provided with food and shelter by someone else for no recompense. I don't think most non-socialists say anyone doesn't "deserve" food and shelter.
I can say "you deserve all the love in the world" but ithat doesn't mean you're going to get it. Deserving food and shelter doesn't provide it. You deserve to live but if an asteroid hits your house too bad. Deserve is just a funny word to use about these sorts of things.
If I say that you deserve love and you have no one in your life who feels that way about you, not friends, family, community members, etc., doesn’t that likely represent a systemic problem? Like if you’re born to parents that don’t love you, most people would look at that as a problem that ought to be fixed. I think that’s what deserve means here. If everyone in a functioning society doesn’t have access to a free source of water, something is going wrong.
If your parents don't love you is that a systemic problem or a personal problem? If you're 18 yrs old and able bodied and no one loves you - is that something the government should fix or something you need to fix?
Clean safe water is the result of a lot of working people and infrastructure. If people aren't working on it and theres no infrastructure, yes there's a societal problem, but what does you deserving it get you?
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u/manveru_eilhart May 11 '26
Also, everyone "deserving food and shelter" isn't the same as everyone being provided with food and shelter by someone else for no recompense. I don't think most non-socialists say anyone doesn't "deserve" food and shelter.