tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8483622.post5864167437337938317..comments2024-02-29T20:00:59.902-08:00Comments on Cartago Delenda Est: Shallow Thinking, SchooledMatteohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05393908406875742989noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8483622.post-73308869082426921762009-12-11T01:11:23.295-08:002009-12-11T01:11:23.295-08:00Due to private-sector reaction(s) to governmental ...Due to private-sector reaction(s) to governmental interference in the marketplace, which has driven the evolution of health insurance since WWII, most people have come to expect that all their health care will be "free" and that they have a "right" to "free" health care; that is, that paying for their own health care should not come out of their own pocket.<br /><br />What we're seeing with such argumentation as in the “I don’t get it” post is similar with respect to "charity." Certain persons who imagine themselves Christians (in truth, their religion is liberalism/soft-leftism) want or need to think of themselves as “good” and “caring” and “unselfish” persons -- but they don’t want the actions which would demonstrate their “goodness” to cost <i>them</i> anything.<br /><br />Christ didn't tell us to rob our neighbors -- under threat of violent death -- to do our "good" works. Had Jesus ordered that, who would think him God's Christ?Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com