As a follow up to my last entry, I want to write some more about the moral and social issues involved.
Is it right that someone less able to do a job should be given one? Most employers will look quite negatively at a poor sickness record. Other people working at the same place seem to get upset if they feel they are doing more than their fair share to make up for someone else. That all seems fairly natural, but is it okay?
If you don’t want to employ or work with someone who is ill, say with a bad back or something, then it seems that you have to accept your taxes going to pay them benefits instead. Even if you just think, “too bad they will have to do a less well paid job or part time”, you still end up having to pay them benefits because they can’t afford a house, or medical care, or to pay as much tax as you.
I wonder if that is now the case. Maybe I should just accept that my life is pretty much ruined by this illness and I will never achive any of my goals or earn a descent wage. I do feel bad about not being able to “pull my weight” as much as someone who isn’t ill, but there is nothing I can do about it. It’s not like I can just buck-up and get on with it.
That makes me feel that society doesn’t care about me, so why should I then care about society? Why not just claim every benefit going, do my best to avoid work until something descent comes along and just generally do everything I can to screw money out of everyone else and the system? If it’s a fight and people think I am worth less than them then why not?
My moral code stops me doing that, but the argument still stands. Maybe there is some middle way, but it seems to me that no-one takes it. What to do…