Sorry for backtracking. To SJSin NYC,
“here is the flaw in your logic. What you are saying is that the guy cannot do proper research part time. If he can do part time research, then yes, he should go out and get a job and do research part time. If he cannot, only then should he take services.”
Sure, anyone can do research part time and work part time. So you just pushed off the cure for cancer 50 years because you think he shouldn’t get WIC.
Sure you can work part time and learn part time but you can’t honestly say that the quantity or even quality will be the same as a guy who is learning full time.
Now, I am not saying that that makes the person who is learning full time a better person than the one working/learning. I think there is a big problem that people are unable to seperate the person from the action. This is a problem both with someone who says that the action is bad and therefore the person is bad and with those who say that “we can’t judge the person” and therefore refuse to judge the action. What level a person is on is only known to Hashem who calculates individual growth, background, temperment and nisayon.
THat being said, the ideal in life is to learn and not to work. Working is a necessity and/or Kellala.