I realize the interest of insurance companies wanting to make a buck and also they naturally want to protect their own investment, however insurance companies regulate a lot of our life in today’s world. But if it isn’t the insurance companies, it is the craze of making all these laws and civil ordinances in our country. I think it is a sport today. As I said in an earlier post, we have a mentality that if we make a law or a civil ordinance by a whim of a city counsel we solve all our problems. The law will purify our life, make us healthy, and tolerant to all things. Science will be the mother of our welfare and ruler our society, like Star Trek, we will develop a perfect community. We will have social counselors who will make sure we do not endanger these objectives of tolerance and will advise us how we are to act and speak and live and if they are crossed, we will have a law in place in order to regulate each individual’s behavior.
Laws that were to protect society are now used against the individual freedoms, property rights and religious freedoms. Alexis de Tocqueville noted the danger of the majority ruling the minority, that is to say, when the freedoms of the minority are taken away. I was reading in German News (
http://www.germnews.de/dn):
- No-smoking laws go into effect in additional German states
Berlin. With the start of the new year tomorrow, comprehensive no-smoking
legislation for restaurants and public buildings will become effective in
eight additional German states. With the exception of Bavaria, where the
Germany-wide strictest law will take effect, most of the states still
allow smoking in restaurants with separate rooms. The FDP criticized the
no-smoking legislation as an expression of overly zealous ambitions for
regulations. Germany more and more was turning into a state of
prohibitions, the FDP spokesperson for addiction policies, Parr, told the
newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau". Parr favors the solution of restaurants
deciding whether to establish smoking sections.
They are also thinking of regulating speech as well, according to my German friend. In Germany, soon it may be considered harassment for the Church to preach against such things like abortion or homosexuality. I believe in Canada there are already such laws. So if you are for killing unborn babies and for every deviant behavior on mother earth, your freedoms of speech may be in danger as well. Ah, people don’t get it as far as I see it. The preservation of freedoms as free speech and property rights are essential. The Church and all interest groups despite their orientation are in danger of free conversation and speech. Will we have a government that will be heading towards an environment described in George Orwell’s book, "1984" (I read it in 1984 when I was a senior in high school). Of course Orwell was talking about England however, his book identifies some fundamental concerns. My friend’s friend was sued for third party verbal harassment about five years ago. Someone overheard their conversation from another table at a restaurant and was offended and sued my friend’s friend and won in court. Regulations that go against property rights and freedoms of speech should be a huge concern for Christians. I miss the ol’ cowboy days! A book entitled, “Truth And Tolerance” is a really good book for conversation written by Pope Benedict. Being a conservative Lutheran, he didn’t do such a bad job in this book. (If you read this on Facebook and want to respond, please do so at my blog site ologos.livejournal.com) Pr. JMD+
