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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (20449)	6/15/2005 6:46:42 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Your argument is based on noble principle that all human beings are bound morally to support one another . Your material argument is somewhat weak to support that notion. We are torn as a global society in a life raft consciousness. Who can we afford to bring aboard and whom will we allow to sink. The life raft mentality relies on our fears of being pulled under by those unfortunates who have been born with inadequate resources or who have not acquired adequate resources to support them. The consciousness of the global society is far from prepared to take a stand on what is arguably a case for unborn human beings. Unborn human beings are currently part of diverse populations crying for assistance. We stood by unflinching as 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered over a four month period in 1994; while we flooded the media world wide with moral outrage over the beheading of Nick Burg. There are more orphaned children starving to death in the world than all of the children currently living in the United States of America. The list of such imbalanced comparisons is unending. Where do we connect with the plight of other human beings and for what reasons. Why do we begin to advocate for their support. Why some more favorably than others. Unless you truly have an all for one and one for all type of principle you will always find the material argument being shot full of holes. There was once a ship wreck in which there was an inadequate number of life rafts (or probably was). Each life raft was equipped to handle 12 persons in a survival emergency. A drowning man swam up to a raft that already had 12 persons and pleaded with the occupants to make room. They responded to him that their provisions were not sufficient to support a thirteenth member. But he convinced them to throw off some of the extra weight to make room for him, arguing that in a life and death matter, you can always find a way to save one person. Pretty soon another person swam up and presented a similar argument. As the life raft was paddled away from the drowning man, the thirteenth man shouted over his shoulder, “Are you kidding, can’t ya see we’re over loaded already.” The character of the thirteenth man generally gives voice that carries the day when there is a question of material support.