It’s not right to say that conservatives are more concerned with moral hazard, because the left has a solution for moral hazard: more government compulsion. The real difference is that conservatives don’t believe the primary social problem is fairly dividing up a limited pie. That can be solved by compulsion. But it’s a secondary problem to that of making more pies. And you can’t make more pies except via voluntary coordination and reciprocity, not by compulsion.

Nothing is ever anyone’s fault; it’s always something holding people down. No freeloaders, only victims awaiting justice! Personal responsibility contradicts that notion.

Farmers from where I am from tend to be conservative and they very much do not like free riders. Farmers’ source of income is very uncertain. It depends on unforseeable circumstances, especially the weather and the exchange rate.