The distinguishing characteristic of humans is Choice...they have the capacity to contemplate, evaluate, a situation and choose whether to take action and what action to take. Pride in their frequency of correct choices is a cornerstone of self esteem, and self-esteem is the cornerstone of happiness.
A proper code of morality for man encompasses pro-life choices for man. Humans are not programmed by instincts to know what are pro-life choices, and must contemplate-evaluate-choose, and so reason is a moral virtue. Not using objective, logical reasoning to make choices is immoral. Integrity - acting in accordance with the judgment of your own mind is moral because that is the natural way of the human composition: the function and capacity of the human mind is to make choices, and the function of the human body is to physically implement those choices. Man is confronted at all times with a life and death alternative...survival is not guaranteed to him. The things man needs to survive are not automatically provided to him by nature, he must take action to acquire and/or use them...which makes productivity a moral virtue. Etc.
A proper political system is built on the proper code of morality for the human species. It recognizes man's natural need to choose, and its sole function is to provide him (and her) with the only social environment in which he can consistently do so. It is called freedom. Because man's need to choose is natural and universal, no man is free to deny others their freedom to choose. All crimes , properly defined, entail interference with, or restraint of, another person's freedom to make choices.
The new health care bill signed into law the other day gives control over our nation's health care system to the government. That is not a proper function of government, which is to protect our freedom to choose. Quite the contrary. The new law requires all Americans to purchase health insurance whether they choose to or not, it requires the owners of insurance companies to provide certain coverage whether they choose to or not, it will result in some taxpayers having to bear the costs of insurance for others whether they choose to or not. The new law does not treat humans as humans but as choiceless animals. That the violations of our freedom are to be committed by the organization which was established to protect our freedom to choose is an obscenity, a vulgarity, an inhumanity, of the worst order.
There isn't an animal I have ever heard of that would take it lying down without a fight.
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