I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.