How Not to Argue about Health Care

Last updated on: December 31, 2014 at 3:45 pm by Mark Shea

How Not to Argue about Health Care 2014-12-31T15:45:33-07:00 Mark Shea

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1. Declare that “Health Care is not a right“.

2211 The political community has a duty to honor the family, to assist it, and to ensure especially:
– the freedom to establish a family, have children, and bring them up in keeping with the family’s own moral and religious convictions;

– the protection of the stability of the marriage bond and the institution of the family;

– the freedom to profess one’s faith, to hand it on, and raise one’s children in it, with the necessary means and institutions;

– the right to private property, to free enterprise, to obtain work and housing, and the right to emigrate;

– in keeping with the country’s institutions, the right to medical care, assistance for the aged, and family benefits;

– the protection of security and health, especially with respect to dangers like drugs, pornography, alcoholism, etc.;

– the freedom to form associations with other families and so to have representation before civil authority.

2. Exile yourself from the human race by writing things like:

Robbins Mitchell| 3.22.10 @ 7:08AM

Now I understand why Bart Jr killed himself some years ago…he couldn’t live with the disgrace when he suddenly realized what his father really was.

3. Demonstrate you commitment to Realio-Trulio Truly True Catholic teaching by writing of any human being:

Hope the lying bastard burns in Hell next to his idol and role model Judas Iscariot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Mock victims of Parkinson’s Disease. For bonus crazy points, say things like “How do we know he *really* had Parkinson’s Disease?” You see, in normal human circles, one waits until somebody *knows* they are dealing with a fraud to make fun of them. But in Crazyville, it’s shoot the guy with Parkinson’s first and ask questions later.

4. Also, declaring that a piece of legislation is the equivalent of the Apocalypse, declaring the United States to be dead, and demonstrating your love for the country by expressing a desire to secede from the Union are also excellent ways of bringing the crazy and assuring that as few people as possible will join your crusade.

I think this bill will be a major piece of suckage in many ways. But come on! We still are an enormously blessed people with a huge amount to be grateful to God for! The cries of hysteria, panic and despair I’m seeing all over the blogosphere make me wonder if we are living in the same universe. They do not make me wonder if such cries proceed from the Spirit of God, for I’m quite persuaded that they don’t. St. Paul saw many injustices in his day. He did not respond to them by freaking out and hoping that his enemies burned in hell. If St. Paul could sing hymns of praise while he and Silas were sitting in a Phillippian jail with their backs raw from a scourging, I think we Americans who are living in the best material circumstances the world has ever seen can afford to loosen our grip on hysteria a bit and recall our duty to be grateful to God and joyful for his many blessings.

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