On the "eve" of the potential passing of one of the most significant and radical changes in our country's history, ObamaCare, I thought these words would serve well repeating...
If you had two people in front of you who needed help, who would you help first? The person whose life is in danger or the person whose health is in need of improvement?
I would like to think that the rational person would see the obvious moral obligation is to help the person whose life is in danger. And I would like to think that the other person would completely understand it and in fact help if possible.
So why then does President Obama want to rush to help "fix health care" by telling everyone to "buck-up" and give him a bill that overhauls our current way of doing "health care"...yet he wants everyone to be patient and wait for a reduction in abortions?
I am confused. This would be like telling the person whose life is in danger to wait and see how it goes while attending to the needs of an ill person.
Furthermore why does President Obama want to reduce abortions? If the fetus is a person at conception, then the obvious rational moral choice is not to work to reduce abortions but to eliminate them all together. If the fetus is not a person until born, then why care how many abortions are performed?
Again if you had two people before you, one whose life is in danger or one whose health is in need of care, who do you help first? I think the answer is simple and obvious, but then again maybe I'm confused.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A Life Less than Fiction
We need to be reminded of the truth learned from fiction: In order to write fiction the author must first have a plan. Even if the fictitious story begins with an simple idea, the author must still first take that idea and "flesh it out" according to a plan. The idea is to be developed into an intentional story with specific characters who have a significant role within a plot that has purpose.
If an author takes an idea and proceeds to tell a story without a plan, chaos ensues. Many consider this a form of lying and use the euphemism, he "told a story." And even with a plan chaos can still ensue if the plan is not a "good plan."
God has the perfect good plan, and his plan is truth. If we insist on writing our own story misaligned from his plan, then we will live in fiction at best and chaos at worse while everything in between will be a lie.
In seeking the truth of God's plan for my own life, I am confronted and bombarded daily with the reality of the chaotic lives of other people. People who desire to "tell a story" because they lack a plan sufficiently aligned with God's plan. Perhaps lying ensues more than chaos, but I surely encounter one or the other on a daily basis.
My observations may seem judgmental but I assure you that I am describing the reality of my life. Though talking politics is taboo, I think a current case in point is relevant, though not the only reality of my life that is less than fiction. That example would be the US Government's current efforts for a "health-care plan." The simple idea (with good intentions) is to provide health care for everyone. This simple idea however is being told without a well-developed "story." The politicians don't even humorous us anymore with "fictitious stories." No, they simply are attempting to "will an idea" upon the people. Some call this forced indoctrination, others perhaps may call it "tyranny."
In my professional life, I have witnessed and continue to witness a similar pattern: Push an idea without a sufficient plan, let alone a good plan or the necessary resources. An insidious behavior has developed in many people who otherwise are definitely not enticing. That is the paradox. People of influence who are otherwise not influential are in positions of authority.
Perhaps I suffer from my own delusions of grandeur or I do live in "Bizarro world." Authoritative individuals who have become so because of incompetency seem to be the antagonists in my life, if I dare say that I am the protagonist in my own life. Truth be known, there are days that I'll take a "great story" of fiction over the "simple ideas" being pushed in real life.
If an author takes an idea and proceeds to tell a story without a plan, chaos ensues. Many consider this a form of lying and use the euphemism, he "told a story." And even with a plan chaos can still ensue if the plan is not a "good plan."
God has the perfect good plan, and his plan is truth. If we insist on writing our own story misaligned from his plan, then we will live in fiction at best and chaos at worse while everything in between will be a lie.
In seeking the truth of God's plan for my own life, I am confronted and bombarded daily with the reality of the chaotic lives of other people. People who desire to "tell a story" because they lack a plan sufficiently aligned with God's plan. Perhaps lying ensues more than chaos, but I surely encounter one or the other on a daily basis.
My observations may seem judgmental but I assure you that I am describing the reality of my life. Though talking politics is taboo, I think a current case in point is relevant, though not the only reality of my life that is less than fiction. That example would be the US Government's current efforts for a "health-care plan." The simple idea (with good intentions) is to provide health care for everyone. This simple idea however is being told without a well-developed "story." The politicians don't even humorous us anymore with "fictitious stories." No, they simply are attempting to "will an idea" upon the people. Some call this forced indoctrination, others perhaps may call it "tyranny."
In my professional life, I have witnessed and continue to witness a similar pattern: Push an idea without a sufficient plan, let alone a good plan or the necessary resources. An insidious behavior has developed in many people who otherwise are definitely not enticing. That is the paradox. People of influence who are otherwise not influential are in positions of authority.
Perhaps I suffer from my own delusions of grandeur or I do live in "Bizarro world." Authoritative individuals who have become so because of incompetency seem to be the antagonists in my life, if I dare say that I am the protagonist in my own life. Truth be known, there are days that I'll take a "great story" of fiction over the "simple ideas" being pushed in real life.
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