by Ray Newman, radio and television commentator, attorney, educator, author

Monday, July 15, 2013

PARADOX RESOLVED

Interesting paradox.

When it comes to the abortion issue, the political Left refers to itself as Pro-Choice:  from conception to birth, it says, the woman should have the exclusive right to choose whether to terminate the pregnancy. 

But when it comes to every other issue, the Left is not Pro-Choice...it is Pro-Control and Regulation:  the Government, it says, has the authority and power to determine what the individual may/must do.  It is the political Right (particularly conservatives) who are Pro-Choice: each man and woman has the inalienable right to choose the course of his/her life.

Can the paradox be reconciled, I wondered.  Is there something that could tie the Left's opposing polar positions together?  A little thought unearthed it.

On the abortion issue, the Right is referred to as being Pro-Life.  And since the Left is opposed to that position, it could logically be said to be, Anti-Life.  And, I realized, when it comes to all other issues, the Left is Anti-Life as well.  It is anti the fetus' life before birth, and anti man's life after birth.  That is its cohesive policy. 

Freedom is a requisite of human beings because their nature requires it.  They are each a composite of mind and body:  the function of the mind to collect data about the world in which we live, make judgments and choices, and direct the body what action to take.  That mind/body harmony is man's natural functioning state.  When he lives with that harmony intact, he is functioning at his maximum, living on all four cylinders, achieving and experiencing life to the maximum.  When outside government or other regulation interferes with and breaches that harmony, denying him the freedom to choose the course of his life... replacing his mind with someone else's...man's nature is violated and he is relegated to a living death.

For man to live a fulfilling and glorious life, man's nature must not be commanded.  It must be obeyed.

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