Being an adult means being responsible for the consequences of our own choices …

For good or for bad.

Long term, government policies and programs which ignore this principle are doomed to fail …

At great cost to everyone.

Those costs include the rise of burgeoning, controlling bureaucracies and the loss of Godly dignity for those being “helped”.

They also include bureaucratic “solutions” that usurp the formation of healthy families and local communities …

Thus destroying the relational context needed to actually help the truly needy among us.

Maybe that’s why God doesn’t countenance the idea of a nanny state – by example or precept – anywhere in Scripture.