hmmm..... so i have a loosely connected question... do you think there is a differance between moral rights and legal rights? like should there be? i mean for example theres health care (im not rele well educated on this topic so plz dont eat me) morally alot of people think that its a persons right to get medical treatmant when their sick. legally its probably not fisable. does anyone think theres is a differance or that there should/should not be a differance between moral rights and legal rights?
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I don't really believe in legal rights per say. The government can make the rights endowed to us by our creator legal. But we had them all along. I think our rights ultimately come from God, and thus, a tyrannical government is really an offense against Him.
as to health care. I don't think it's wrong, in that, the government is immoral in not offering health care. But I do think that it's a basic necessity. (and maybe a kind of right.)
I think that kind of thing should be in the hands of religious organizations as a mission of mercy though. In my opinion, it should be non-profit organizations offering healthcare to those without insurance. The government shouldn't be required to use its tax money because its people would already be taking care of the less fortunate.
Christians especially are called to do this, and I think it's terrible that we're getting to the point where the government feels the need to step in.
no. The government wouldn't be offering health care for free either.:) We'd all be paying for it in tax money, which would be mandatory. What I'm saying is that most people should already willingly be helping through their church or whatever, and filling that need so the government doesn't have to step in.
some faiths already do. maybe the reason im missing your point is because catholics kinda do have a health care system like that... im not well educated about it but i beleive thats why most hosiptals have names like 'St. Jhons' or what not... any way my bro worked with them for the summer so hed be a better person to ask =P
anyway... i didnt mean to turn this into a health care debate... i just was useing it as an example
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I would say that there is a difference between legal and moral rights. For instance, here in the U.S. we have a right to own guns. I don't really think that's a moral right. :D
I do! lol.:) I think it's immoral to make people vulnerable. In fact, when you take away part of someone's being able to protect themselves, I'd say that's breaking the sixth commandment.:D
(of course, I'm a fairly dimwitted hillbilly, so that could just be something I'm rather too passionate about.)
you know they recently came out with a study that people cry as a way to show their vulnerability... like they blind themselves as a way of saying "i know i wont have to fight you so plz dotn prove me wrong." if that logic is true than crying is immoral because it makes a person vulnerable.....
also do you think that everyone should have a gun?
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lol. most often people don't enjoy crying in front of other people. they can't control it. and i've actually found (although I don't recommend doing it) that crying is a good way to manipulate someone. (especially if said someone is a guy.)
I don't know anyone who enjoys looking vulnerable. plus if you can't help crying, (like I know I can't) it's not a sin. it's something your body was created to do.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
