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Secondly, I now offer this caveat because SOMETIMES those people are only HALF-STUPID and are HUMAN, and thus in SOME CASES there SHOULD BE a little GOVERNMENT assistance for when AFTERWARD they make that bonehead move(like riding withOUT a helmet for instance, and they don't have enough INSURANCE to pay for the Neurological Specialists) and who will need that christian-like HELPING HAND, so they can get on with their idiot lives LATER.



Admittedly I have a Christian duty to help my fellow man. I may even have an ethical duty to do so. But nowhere is there a constitutional duty to do so. Up until less than 100 years ago that was well understood. In fact, the 9th and 10th amendments of the US Constitution clearly preclude the federal government from performing any actions not explicitly charged to it by other parts of the constitution.

My Christian duty is a personal charge to me, as an individual, to help my fellow man. If I fail to do so that is a personal failure. It is certainly not a mandate for me to force others to do so.

Christian organizations have built the vast majority of hospitals wherever Christianity is widely practiced, as well as a great number in other places. They were built as a service to their communities as well as charities to the poor. I don’t mind paying to help staff, furnish and supply those places as part of my moral duty. What I do not like is being forced to by a bunch of irreligious pseudo moral busybodies illegitimately using the power of government to extort me into doing so.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.