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August 8th, 2012, 5:17 pm
(quote not shown) Not that I would beat the crap out of my neighbor for playing his music too loud, but the neighbor should have respect for me, and not play his music too loud. I don't play my music too loud, and except my neighbor to do the same thing. But what do you do if your neighbor doesn't l...
August 7th, 2012, 5:21 pm
There is some truth, but not complete truth in all of these arguments. Looks like this is a really hard paradox. Is most everything in life a paradox? There might be some absolute truth that is not a paradox, but most things seem a paradox to me. It is hard to tell the difference between them or the...
July 26th, 2012, 5:09 pm
Maldon007 wrote:There should be lots of things.
And water and food are not a right.
Water and food should be a right.
July 20th, 2012, 3:21 pm
Maldon007 wrote:The question, does everyone deserve health care? I was always taught that I have no right to expect others to do work for me, for free. When my daughter says- Why cant everything just be free? I usually say, that will be fine, as long as you work hard for free, for others. For everyone to get health care, of course people must do the job of giving them health care, and will not want to do it for free, so someone has to pay. We have come to the conclusion that some who cant afford the care they want/need, should have their bill paid by others, who can afford it, because (at least some people think) health care is/has become a human right.
Thought experiment (my first really, so go easy)...
Assuming health care is in fact a right, what would we do if everyone made about the same money, no more 99% VS 1%... At least, the difference was so small, the 1% only made a few more bucks than the 99%.
How did this happen? I don't know if it matters, but lest say we came up with the perfect tax system. It taxed everyone to the outcome that everyone took home about the same money. This system raised the lowest income & lowered the highest, to the point that everyone ended up with say- $50,000 a year. Even the best doctors make about that wage (again, take-home).
But unfortunately, in this world, health care is still expensive for whatever reason... Maybe materials are more scarce, whatever. Health care costs are exactly as now, and other aspects of healthcare are the same as well. Governmentally, it is not affordable or sustainable for government to pay anymore for healthcare than it dose now, the redistribution of taxes has strained government power to the max.
Seeing that people ALL make about the same take home wage, there is no reason to tax people further, to pay for health care, since there are no rich... Taking from everyone, to give back to everyone, would only drain more capital towards government & away from health care.
So, everyone makes the same, nobody can afford more than average/below average healthcare, though advanced methods/drugs/treatments are possible/available, if the money was there... or if doctors/medical material providers could be made to work for free.
In such a case, would the right of those needing health care trump the rights of those providing the care, to be paid? Would it be right to force providers to work for less/nothing? Or would health care just devolve to a less advanced sate, dragging life spans down, reducing quality of life for chronic illnesses?
How would society express the rights of people to have health care, in such a situation?
Health care should be a right like water and food are a right. The government should get rid of programs that are not essential to life, and focus on programs that really matter. There should be a way to give all people health care, and not spend too much.
July 18th, 2012, 5:43 pm
(quote not shown) Even if you were to affirm yourself of something that was not true something would happen in the environment (like crappy people to unaffirm it. I don't know how I can tell myself a lie that is not based on reality, and actually get myself to believe my own lie. If people in my env...
July 14th, 2012, 1:28 pm
(quote not shown) No guarantee that if you cast your bread on the waters that it will come back to you. There is some people I tried to be nice to, and I got crap back in return. Getting crap back from people seems to happen more often than not. How can a person be happy if they have to sacrifice th...
July 13th, 2012, 5:52 pm
(quote not shown) No a computer is not the same as a person. A computer couldn't feel pain because a computer doesn't have neurons or consciousness. -- Updated Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:57 pm to add the following -- (quote not shown) A computer can never be able to feel pain, and will never be able to feel...
July 13th, 2012, 5:37 pm
(quote not shown) I would not necessarily feel like it. I would worry about his reaction to me. I would feel it is my responsiblity, but I would be conflicted as to whether or not to do it. Maybe it is my responsiblity, maybe it is not. In some situations maybe it wouldn't be wise to do it others it...
July 13th, 2012, 5:27 pm
(quote not shown) A person being able to meditate doesn't make sense. You are always aware of something. A person cannot just shut their mind off. The concept just doesn't make any sense. You would always be aware of trying to shut your mind off. So if you told yourself to be calm and happy in a neg...
July 13th, 2012, 5:14 pm
(quote not shown) Yes a person thinks, and thinking would occur in the brain, and the brain is a form of matter inside a person's body. But what a person thinks only that person can know, and other people cannot read another person's thoughts. Why? Because thoughts are invisible. So if thoughts are ...
July 13th, 2012, 2:44 pm
(quote not shown) God could or could not be based in our current reality. We cannot know that one way or another. Thoughts are just thoughts, and do not touch us. Touching would mean a physical action like touching an existing object. So what you would mean by touching us would mean that the thought...
July 12th, 2012, 4:18 pm
(quote not shown) Some thoughts are generated from stuff in experience, and some thoughts are not generated from experience. God is an idea that people have, but God is not in experience. Where people get the idea of God I am not exactly sure. God is a theory. People look at the universe, and think ...
July 11th, 2012, 5:20 pm
(quote not shown) No you cannot touch an abstraction. Touch is a action, and if something is abstract you cannot touch it because an abstraction is an idea you have in your mind, and you cannot touch something physically if it is in your mind. You cannot touch thoughts. You can touch physical object...
July 10th, 2012, 5:44 pm
(quote not shown) Even if a person is mentally ill the act he still does is evil. The person would not be an evil person because he couldn't help what he did since the person is mentally ill. For example if a mentally ill person killed a friend of yours I am sure you would consider the act evil, and...
July 10th, 2012, 5:28 pm
(quote not shown) The newborn infant has some knowledge already in its head before experience, so it can arrange the experience into facts. It also does not have all knowledge, and there is only knowledge it could be gain from experience, so it uses that knowledge with the knowledge it already has t...