Ok I know I said I wasn't going to write anymore political blogs.... but....
I have been doing some thinking about things and this is what I came up with.....
1. our current healthcare system is broken in that not everyone can afford basic health care. On the other hand we have the most advanced healthcare of any country on the planet(if you disagree ask anyone who has spent any appreciable time overseas). I believe that this is due in large part to free market nature of our health care system... in this case profit being the mother of invention. So how do we provide universal healthcare and maintain the current quality of service, how do we cover everyone without stifeling the innovation and creativity needed to continue the advances in healthcare?
2. How does one legislate morality?
3. How is it that we can as a culture recognize the fact that if we watch too much violence that we can become more violent, if we watch people smoking in movies that we mght be more inclined to smoke, and yet apparently we are not supposed to be affected by watching hours and hours of sex in movies and television?
there is more I want to write but it's late and I am getting sleepy...
more later
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3. How does one NOT legislate morality?
John... what i mean is..... if we truly live in a secular nation based on religious freedom.... who's morality do we legislate? Do we really expect non christians to act and behave like christians, do we have the right in this country to legally force them to?
Much more interesting question.
Answer later? Maybe. Don't exactly know. But it's wrapped up into concepts of natural law, common law, democracy and constitutionally guaranteed rights, based upon said interpretation of natural law.
If one defines natural law as legal premises inferred from morality that appears to arise organically within human culture, we have a pretty controversial concept that is accepted by a varied group including atheists and Romans 1 believing Christians.
Interesting. No time now. Talk later...
I am not talking so much about the difference between good and evil, so much as who gets to choose what's moral, and do we have the right, or the obligation as christians to dictate law based on our moral code. The problem is that we live in a pluralistic society now wich has become much more than the founders intended. If someone doesn't believe the same as I do take abortion or homosexuality for example can I legally or morally hold him to that same standard?
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