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Don't complain when you just say 'thank you'
Topic Started: 18 Jun 2013, 08:42 AM (98 Views)
Ysbryd
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I am not a parent, so I am sure there are things going on that I cannot comprehend, but I am one of the ones who has been against the parents of the 10-year-old girl in need of a lung transplant who sued the government to intervene on the child's behalf so that she could be added to the adult donor's list.

As Dr Sander Florman so adequately stated: "I think it sets a very dangerous precedent to have a court deciding medical necessities and allocation even if the rules aren't right."

Republicans are constantly bemoaning the Affordable Care Act as a means for the government to control your health and whether or not you receive adequate care or just die. The government doesn't have to mandate this kind of stuff on its own. All it has to do is sit back and wait til we ask for it. The rules about organ transplants aren't fair, but I think it's better to have an unfair rule system than to ask for the government to intervene, opening the door for them to come right in in future cases.

The same goes for this whole business with the NSA. It was all fine for the government to spy on us when the Patriot Act came into being because the tragedies of 9/11 were still fresh in our minds and hearts and we wanted the government to do all it could to prevent a repeat of 9/11. I suppose it was all still fresh enough for us to allow it to be reauthorized in 2005/06.

And now that some twit with a conscience has decided to really shove in our collective faces just what the Patriot Act allows, well now we're all crying foul.

You either want the government to intervene in your life or you don't. If you don't, then don't allow it to happen in the first place. If you do, you have no room for complaint. Don't just sit back and say 'thank you' when the government does something like this. As a friend pointed out: when Hitler boosted the German economy by making all their decisions for them, the Germans all said 'thank you.'
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