'Good intentions' are never good enough

Wintery Knight: Pregnant South African women binge drinking in order to get more welfare

A horrible article from the UK Daily Mail.

Excerpt:

Pregnant South African women are deliberately drinking large quantities of alcohol to harm their unborn babies in a bid to earn more welfare money, it has been claimed.

Expectant mothers living in the Eastern Cape, one of the poorest areas in South Africa, are bingeing on a ‘moonshine’ type drink which contains battery acid – with some drinking up to five and six bottles a day.

It has been reported they do it to claim a disability benefit from the government – using their disabled children as a source of income.

Video taken by Sky News shows a mother drinking a homemade brew called ‘kah-kah’ while heavily pregnant.

[...]The addictive milky brown brew is made from yeast, water and battery acid.

[...]The World Health Organisation said there has been an increase in the number of babies born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the area since 2002.

The syndrome is also the most common birth defect in South Africa.

The irreversible symptoms mean children suffer from speech problems, physical deformities, learning difficulties and behavioural issues.

Families receive 250 South African rand ($29 US) per child, per month but a disabled child brings in around 1200 rand a month ($138 US).

It’s very important for Christians to understand that policies that sound compassion can actually provide incentives to people to do more bad things in order to get more money from the government. ...

It is not good enough to have intentions of doing good -- one most also have a reasonable expectation that one's efforts at Do-Goodery will actually result in good rather than harm.  But having that reasonable expectation requires taking into account human nature and the incentives and disincentives that one's "good deeds" create.

"Liberals", whether Chriatian or not, actively resist this necessary step, even to the point of viciously attacking anyone who raises the necessary questions. This is why their "good deeds" almost always result in a net increase of misery and/or wickedness. To put it another way, "liberals" really aren't so much concerned with actually doing good as with buffing up the little idol of their own self-evident goodness -- their worship it continuously, and so ought you!