Answer: Do you support abolishing welfare? Let nature sort out those who are unwilling to work.

For context, this is a question I answered on Quora

First of all, we do not live in a state of nature. Unless you’re roughing it out in the wilderness with no civilization in site the environment around you is not a result of nature but human cooperation so the only “sorting out” would be by people and their institutions themselves not nature. That is the first false premise of social Darwinism. Those “unwilling to work” are sometimes unable to work due to advanced age or disability or both so I don’t think welfare should be abolished so much as it should be localized and controlled by people closest to those in need, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, through local mutual aid groups. This would be a far more constructive discourse to have then discussing the merits of a 19th century pseudoscience theory that misconstrues the actual theory of natural selection and genetic drift.