Friday, March 02, 2012
One of the great thing about Facebook, is that at any time, it allows people to broadcast how completely ignorant they are about politics and economics, and demonstrate a lack of thinking ability in general.
It's like telling synagogues that they have to provide their members bacon. Yeah, it would be an awesome, awesome, phenomenal thing, but can we agree that it's not within the powers of the government to require that?
You say those are bad comparisons, because bacon is not as important? That is correct. The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect against when something is a "good idea" or popular. It's like the time my boss said that my employment contract should just assume we were going to treat each other fairly. Oh yeah, so then why do we even need a contract?
The irony is especially rich considering that state religious edicts like this were one of the main reasons people took the risks to set up the colonies that became this country.
So yeah, it's an issue in 2012.
I guess now we can briefly turn from politics to economics. Insurance is for large, unpredictable, irregular expenses. Contraception is a small, regular and predictable expense. It's like buying "lunch" insurance. Just fucking stupid.
"I can't believe contraception is even an issue in 2012."Look, I love contraception. But back in school I read this old weird document that said something along the likes of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Forcing churches to buy their members contraception sounds a whole lot like prohibiting free exercise of religion. It's an issue in 2012 because, while no one is forced to be a member of or work at a church, Obamarama wants to force people to violate their religion.
It's like telling synagogues that they have to provide their members bacon. Yeah, it would be an awesome, awesome, phenomenal thing, but can we agree that it's not within the powers of the government to require that?
You say those are bad comparisons, because bacon is not as important? That is correct. The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect against when something is a "good idea" or popular. It's like the time my boss said that my employment contract should just assume we were going to treat each other fairly. Oh yeah, so then why do we even need a contract?
The irony is especially rich considering that state religious edicts like this were one of the main reasons people took the risks to set up the colonies that became this country.
So yeah, it's an issue in 2012.
I guess now we can briefly turn from politics to economics. Insurance is for large, unpredictable, irregular expenses. Contraception is a small, regular and predictable expense. It's like buying "lunch" insurance. Just fucking stupid.
