A man of twenty-one with learning disabilities has been granted taxpayers’ money to fly to Amsterdam and have sex with a prostitute. Why not? His social worker says sex is a “human right” and that his client, being a virgin, is entitled to the support of the state in claiming said right. Fortunately, a £520 million program was set up by Her Majesty’s Government to “empower those with disabilities.”
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Dependence-Day-6753
I've been joking with friends about this for months, but didn't think I'd see it come to fruition so fast! But really, if we're going to use the coercive force of the state to take money from the subjects and apply that money with the benefit of governmental wisdom to alleviate suffering - what greater reduction in suffering could there be than to 'empower' young men to avoid the suffering of sexual deprivation!?!
Steyn's a genius, if a bit too enamored of using words like 'we' when he means 'the political class with the consent of those who are mesmerized by them'. But this piece covers a lot of ground and is worth reading more than once, if one can hold off the urge to feel as depressed about things as Steyn seems to.
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