Um ... why do people think governments (politics, whatever) are supposed help with these issues? Before we go off as aid workers--or even send out aid workers--or shift our focus to struggling people wherever they may be elsewhere in the world, shouldn't we try to solve issues in our own country that are and will tear us apart and make us unable to help those elsewhere? I'm not saying that I have a solution. I'm not even saying I'm doing my part. All I'm saying is that we should look at our problems here, not elsewhere. Our own culture is needs serious help. Just to put it in perspective according to Wikipedia (a typically liberally biased website though certainly not authoritative): in Darfur, 450,000+ people have been killed from 2003 to present; in the US alone from 2003-2005, there were approximately 2.5 million legal abortions. That's over five times as many people murdered than in Darfur in basically half the time. Of course, these numbers aren't taking into percentage of an ethnic peoples group killed, but the numbers are staggering.
I must say Isaac, I am still thinking about a lot of those issues and why/how the government could do anything positive. However, Obama made a statement about Darfur as part of his campaign, saying that such actions would not be tolerated by his administration and whatnot--so I think he needs to be held to his promise.
On taking care of issues in our own country--will the government be able to change that? Yes it is our nation...but are there truly enough people against abortion that it will be outlawed? And even once it is outlawed will it actually decrease? Slavery is outlawed in almost every single country in the world, and we all know its still exists in staggering numbers so how do we know abortion would be any better? Yes, it is truly wrong that 2.5 million babies have been aborted legally...but if they were alive and the parents didn't want them would there be enough homes for them to go to? I think its important that we answer these questions. We can't just say "everyone stop aborting the kids you don't want" until we have an alternate solution for them that will actually work.
These thoughts are not exactly complete...and I plan on writing a blog post about these issues in the near future.
What if it were legal to kill old people (say over 70), and because of the continuing practice there was no system in place to take care of them. Would you say the same thing, "We can't just say 'everyone stop [killing the old people].'" Should we really keep killing the old people until there are resources in place to take care of them? I think we can absolutely say "Stop abortion," even if children would go homeless: we cannot endorse murder.
No, we definitely cannot endorse murder. But I still think we need to think about what the lives of those people who are in the position of possibly being murdered.
We should be thinking about what is best for other people. Living on the streets in any country with the possibility of being murdered/raped/beaten/enslaved or starving to death is no life we should impose on anyone no matter their age or where they live.
Just killing them is not the solution, so what is?
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Um ... why do people think governments (politics, whatever) are supposed help with these issues? Before we go off as aid workers--or even send out aid workers--or shift our focus to struggling people wherever they may be elsewhere in the world, shouldn't we try to solve issues in our own country that are and will tear us apart and make us unable to help those elsewhere? I'm not saying that I have a solution. I'm not even saying I'm doing my part. All I'm saying is that we should look at our problems here, not elsewhere. Our own culture is needs serious help. Just to put it in perspective according to Wikipedia (a typically liberally biased website though certainly not authoritative): in Darfur, 450,000+ people have been killed from 2003 to present; in the US alone from 2003-2005, there were approximately 2.5 million legal abortions. That's over five times as many people murdered than in Darfur in basically half the time. Of course, these numbers aren't taking into percentage of an ethnic peoples group killed, but the numbers are staggering.
I must say Isaac, I am still thinking about a lot of those issues and why/how the government could do anything positive. However, Obama made a statement about Darfur as part of his campaign, saying that such actions would not be tolerated by his administration and whatnot--so I think he needs to be held to his promise.
On taking care of issues in our own country--will the government be able to change that? Yes it is our nation...but are there truly enough people against abortion that it will be outlawed? And even once it is outlawed will it actually decrease? Slavery is outlawed in almost every single country in the world, and we all know its still exists in staggering numbers so how do we know abortion would be any better? Yes, it is truly wrong that 2.5 million babies have been aborted legally...but if they were alive and the parents didn't want them would there be enough homes for them to go to? I think its important that we answer these questions. We can't just say "everyone stop aborting the kids you don't want" until we have an alternate solution for them that will actually work.
These thoughts are not exactly complete...and I plan on writing a blog post about these issues in the near future.
What if it were legal to kill old people (say over 70), and because of the continuing practice there was no system in place to take care of them. Would you say the same thing, "We can't just say 'everyone stop [killing the old people].'" Should we really keep killing the old people until there are resources in place to take care of them? I think we can absolutely say "Stop abortion," even if children would go homeless: we cannot endorse murder.
No, we definitely cannot endorse murder. But I still think we need to think about what the lives of those people who are in the position of possibly being murdered.
We should be thinking about what is best for other people. Living on the streets in any country with the possibility of being murdered/raped/beaten/enslaved or starving to death is no life we should impose on anyone no matter their age or where they live.
Just killing them is not the solution, so what is?
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