[aruanan]

I know this woman is at the crazy end of the GW spectrum but I know from previous experience that many lefties would have quiet sympathy with her statements.

I once had a boss who said that if people have to get licenses to drive cars, they need to get them to become parents. She didn't seem to think much of my questioning who would be the ones to set the criteria for "successful parenting." She also said that because health care results in costs "to society," someone has to decide who gets what and how much of it. I still don't see the chain of logic that inexorably leads from the former observation to the latter prescription. It was as though the whole central matter of values and politics that separated one from the other was invisible to her.

[melsec]

Nice point aruanan!

Somewhere in the background of all that is that they are the ones who get to make the decision. Without the guidance of God, though, their decisions are arbitrary and without the humility that comes from ultimately having to answer for their actions they cannot be trusted.

Mel

[Still Thinking]

I love how when a liberal compares one regulated activity with an unregulated one (and the comparisons in themselves are even sometimes valid), it's always immediately assumed that the UNregulated sphere is the wrong one, that its regulation has to INCREASE to harmonize with the regulated one.

It would seem to me the presumption would be for freedom, that if in two similar cases, one regulated and one not, neither is causing problems it proves the HIGHER regulation is unnecessary.