The other night at church the strangest thing happened. I was standing in a group of three people talking after church. I was mainly listening, inserting the occasional dry aside. Anyway the conversation somehow turned to healthcare--probably because I'm going to medical school.
So one of the participants was clearly for socialized medicine, the other against. The one against gave a story illustrating the problems Canada has had, something along the lines of if this guy hadn't come to the United States he would have died. The other said--well there's a good form of population control.
I of course immediately started laughing thinking it a joke along the lines of so many I have made in the past.
But then I looked and he was dead serious. Here was a pillar of the community, a Christain man and dedicated father saying something that seems to me to be completely abomidable. I checked again to be sure, but he pressed his point--we worry too much about living a long time anyway--imagine advocating using a flawed healthcare system as a form of population control.
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That does seem rather reprehensible. We are all flawed in our thinking, and in need of greater guidance by the Spirit through the word.
That is a little odd. I do think we shouldn't care as much about living long but population control?
population control??? huh?
it had to be the guy FOR socialized medicine. geez.
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