Why Do You Agree To Nozick's Idea?

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I agree to Nozick’s idea. It is important to have systems which protect people with the most disadvantages, but the systems can’t/shouldn’t control the dynamics of distributions. In Japan, to guarantee minimum life standard for everyone, the government provide social aid (money) to people with physical/mental disadvantage. Now, the increasing number of people who receive the aid dishonestly is becoming a social problem. Dishonest receivers claim that they have lost the motivation to work, seeing that the money they earned with efforts is re-distributed to social aid receivers, who haven’t worked as hard, in a form of tax. I believe if the society follows Raul’s idea, people will lose not only the right to act upon their desire or choices, but

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