Education
Instead of Legislation
This
is my observation of the major fundamental differences between
the
Republicans and Democrats
By Chuck Jackson
Republicans
on the extreme right want to dictate how we should live; they
appear
to want to whack people on the head with their moral superiority.
Democrats
on the extreme left want to force others (taxpayers, businesses) to
pay for everybody’s mistakes (or experiments) in life.
There
are things in this life that we should or should not do; but with
freedom to make choices comes the freedom to suffer the consequences.
If a
person on his or her own free will, goes out and has multiple sex
partners after being informed that this sort of behavior could lead
to problems (part of the educational issue) and comes down with a
sexually infectious disease they should be free to suffer the
consequences. What two or more consenting adults do in the privacy of
their own home is their business. Whatever diseases are contracted
should be their problem.
Attempting
to legislate morality does not work. Morality must be taught. Let’s
look at smoking (which taxpayers subsidize). There has been a written
warning on the side of each pack of cigarettes for over 30 years,
with people fighting the cigarette industry over the health risks of
smoking longer then that. If a person freely chooses to smoke because
he or she wants to be “cool” or whatever, it is their
problem. They chose to ignore the warning that smoking eventually
causes diseases.
If the
individual cannot read the warning on the pack of cigarettes we have
an “educational” problem. If the person can read but
chooses to ignore the warning it should be their problem. Attempting
to legislate self-inflicted health problems works no better then
legislating morality. Health issues must be taught.
Legislating
morality did not work with the President’s daughters (and
millions others) when it came to underage drinking. Legislating
morality does not seem to be working with the President’s niece
(and millions others) where drugs are involved.
Education
is the Key
Mistakes,
at times are very painful. But that’s the learning curve of
life.