Christian Graus wrote:
My central point is that your system is uncivil, and relies on a civility that exists, but easy excludes people.
And I have demonstrated that isn't true. All systems exclude people. Historically, ours has excluded fewer that have any other, precisely because our society was structured around christianity and capitalism.
Christian Graus wrote:
It's because people have retreated into their own worlds, or online worlds, and generally been cut off from their communities.
You simply cannot discount the overt political assault that has been leveled against traditional American society by powerful media, educational and political forces. American society was purposefully designed to depend upon the good will of people towards one another. Our society was perfectly functional until modern government began assuming more of the respnsibilities that were once the province of neighbors.
Christian Graus wrote:
This is a dumb question. Everybody dies.
Of course its a dumb question, but unless you can show tht they are dieing in substantially less numbers under your system than under ours, yet alos claim that some subtantial numbers of ours are dieing due to neglect, the question has to be asked: What are yours dieing from? If not neglect it can only be on purpose.
Christian Graus wrote:
No, the answer is that the way that it's paid for in your system, and the way your government works, allows for this sort of abuse. Just like the endless stream of advertising allowed on TV, whose sole aim is to get people addicted to pills they don't need.
Than why is our educational system following precisly the same trend? The two sectors of our society that are most influenced by government control, health care and education, are both becoming ever more expsensive as they become ever less effective. Government is the only common variable.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
