From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.medicine
Subject: Re: An Approach to National Health Care
Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:42:00 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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	I somewhat agree with the 7-page post.  It seems well-though-out, 
but there is a serious consideration that the Americans with Disabilities
act flies in the face of:

	IT IS A JUNGLE!!!

	(btw, I am not looking for flames, just discussion...)

	People seem to have forgotten their origins.  We didn't just "land"
here after the world was created, and some "God" figure made us lord of
all we see -- the Bible is probably a major source of resource mis-allocation
and hardships.

	By giving everyone free health care, we are essential wasting away
the gene pool.  In inner cities, there are people on welfare having 7 children
starting at age 14 because they *perceive* that they will make more if they
do so (especially if they are a single parent).  (I realize that raising a
child takes a lot *more* than the extra "bonus" check, but many people do
not take the time or the intelligence to do the whole calculation.)

	One of the fortunes on this Unix system is: "Global intelligence is a
constant.  The population is growing."  Sad, but true: inner city rabbit
breeding, while intelligent couples realize either a) they can't afford
tons of kids, or b) the world is overcrowded so let's only have one or two.
What can be done to reverse this trend?  I am considering having many
children, but a) that would make me poor and thus is not a good use of
the intelligence I was granted, and b) it *would* increase the number of
people on the Earth, and they'd be poor at that due to a).

	Now, I will probably be flamed for being white, male, 23, 
middle-class, and healthy.  I'm not sure how to respond to this, because,
you're right, I have *absolutely* no concept of life in the inner city,
of starving, of being sick with no hope for getting better.  I can't see
from my left eye, and have been like that since birth; while this may
help me advance due to the Americans with Disabilities act, I don't *like*
that fact nor do I plan to use it.  To put someone with no hands in a
secretarial position simply to fulfill quotas is a misuse of the Earth's
resources, and an injustice to the WASP who *has* both hands and is
therefore better qualified.

	I suppose you could say I'm anti-human.  Not necessarily *all*
humans, but the lazy ones, the lawyers among us, who sue at the drop of
a hat and in general try to accumulate as many resources with as little
possible work *regardless* of who gets hurt (and I realize that, without
that "regardless," I just described every organism's goal).

	So, a question: is there any way to educate people to be motivated,
to do things for themselves *and others*?  It would be nice if there were
some sort of symbiosis to the human culture, instead of a dog-eat-dog
world.

	And I've rambled enough.  What do *you* think?
--
Kenneth L. Beal, Jr.			kbeal@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com
"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!" - MST3k
"Street person my responsibility." - Indigo Girls
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