Comments | smurasaki: Mitt Romney thinks people are not entitled to food

smurasaki

Mitt Romney thinks people are not entitled to food

Sep 18, 2012 19:24

I think Mitt Romney is a terrible human being. I also think people are entitled to food. So does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25)*. And, unless I'm mistaken, so do most (all?) major religions, including Christianity. I am, admittedly, not a Christian, but as far as I can tell Jesus says in the Parable of the Sheep and the ( Read more... )

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marag September 19 2012, 02:26:37 UTC

Yes. This.

I've been screaming at anyone who'll sit still long enough almost exactly some of your words above "This is why we have civilization! We have it so we can take care of each other!!!!"

smurasaki September 19 2012, 03:20:11 UTC

I honestly do not get where the anti-civilization folks are coming from. Are they really that clueless? What do they think the world would be like if they got what they wanted? And, most importantly, does anyone have a portal to that world handy so that we can shove them all through it?

baeraad September 19 2012, 13:15:22 UTC

I think Mitt Romney is a terrible human being.

Well, yes. He's a conservative. >_>

I also think people are entitled to food.

Yes, they are. No ifs, buts, maybes or bureaucratic hoops to jump through. The essentials of life should never be a privilege that anyone or anything, whether a human being or nature or simple bad luck, should be allowed to revoke.

I am, admittedly, not a Christian, but as far as I can tell Jesus says in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25 31-46) that you'll go to hell if you don't feed the poor. Which leaves the question: why do any Christians support Romney?Oh, that one's simple. They take it as a commandment of individual charity, not a description of how a government should act. So they accept that they have a duty to care for the poor, they just think it should be a matter of conscience, not a duty enforced by law ( ... )

smurasaki September 20 2012, 01:56:02 UTC

I know they've managed to completely divorce themselves from reality, but I can't really wrap my head around it. It's like meeting people who are convinced that trees are made out of cheese or that they can walk through walls, or something equally obvious and disprovable. My brain just shorts out because reality just flat out disagrees with them.

(Paraphrased real quotes from other people at the public library I work at...paraphrased because I didn't have a tape recorder, so I can't be sure of exact words ( ... )