Those who have read this blog the last two weeks can be forgiven for wondering:
Why am I, the author, just now highlighting the obvious? That obvious point is that each
individual is unique and different. It is only from 30,000 feet that we look the same.
Having six kids and twenty-seven grandkids, I have direct knowledge that each
person is not just a boy or girl or generic person that we can force into a box. We have talents, problems, desires and other differences that set us apart. Color preference is an
obvious difference. However, for the philosophers who are like John Rawls, their
analysis begins and ends with a subjective view of people having no differences. That
view from 30,000 feet misses the point completely.
We should be allowed to explore our own differences, within reason, while not
infringing on others having the same freedom. But the “Good” which a philosopher sees
that is clearly so much better than our right to choose, in that individual’s opinion, can
become an overriding obsession to impose that vision on the rest of humanity. For
further reading on this, Thomas Sowell’s Visions of the Anointed is an excellent book. It
is not overly long and easily understood.
My short answer is no one except God is smart enough to know what is best for
each individual and He doesn’t impose His views on us. In fact, He sent His Son to
persuade us. If He doesn’t force us, how does any individual claim the right to strip us of
our right to make bad, or good, decisions?
Marxism, modern Progressivism, radical Islam, are only a few of the philosophies
that claim they have the Truth and therefore the right to tell us what to do. Or kill us, in
the case of radical Islam and Marxism and others, if we don’t come along quietly.
As you read Orphan’s Test and Lost Heir, you may find problems with the
universe of Hugh Cascade and Maeve uch Roberts. Keep those questions in mind as
you go forward. Think about what you would do to fix those issues and then read
Guardian.
Coming out soon.
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