I am not sure what in my post made you think so. I said that there are structural elements and there are individual choices and we need to acknowledge both, popular tropes notwithstanding. The cons tend to ignore structural constraints in order to absolve the system and its ruling class that benefits from it. The liberals tend to ignore human agency and blame the structural constraints for everything. The shortcomings of the conservative position are self-evident, at least to the members of this list, so there is no need to flog that dead horse here. However, the liberals and lefties systematically ignore human agency with all its "politically incorrect" consequences, such as that the poor also make choices, that those choices can be self-destructive, that they may include exploiting other poor. That warrants a discussion and someone's playing the devil's advocate role.
wojtek