It’s just the law.
Yes, we should work to make sure our laws are just and
moral. But making something legal or illegal does not change the justness or
morality of it.
I’m not saying people don’t have the right to complain about
the Supreme Court ruling on healthcare. Personally, I support many parts of the
healthcare bill. I don’t support the mandate. The discussion about how to
provide healthcare for all while still giving people the freedom to make their
own bad choices is something we should be having. Instead, we just have two
sides bickering, blaming, and hating one another. The facebook outcrys can be
amusing, though mostly sad. We let the people who aim for power and money
dictate our feelings. It’s a shame we make quick, uneducated, aggressive
statements instead of taking the time to actually find solutions.
I don’t have much to say on this specific case, but it makes
me think of a larger picture. We should question laws, pit them against our
morals. We must follow the path of morality even when it contradicts the laws
under which we live. Even when doing so is cumbersome, or expensive, or
dangerous. We have 2,000 years’ worth of martyrs to stand as examples. It may
be a harder path, but at least it’s not a lonely one.
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