Is Obama's 'common ground' reasonable?
President Obama's interpretation of justice...For him, the central principle is not to find justice and protect it, but to honor even the unjust moral judgements of others.
"The strong too often dominate the weak, and too many of those with wealth and with power find all manner of justification for their own privilege." —US President Barack Obama, May 17, 2009
(Chrysler winners and losers? It's no what ___ wants, it's what the president wants...)
"As Catholics, we can never cease to work for the correction of gravely unjust laws. Law is a fundamental expression of our culture and implicitly teaches citizens what is morally acceptable." —Archbishop Raymond Burke, May 8, 2009
(Chrysler - is it acceptable to turn your back on the law of the land? Good laws for hundreds of years?)
Do we live in the Barack world of anything goes? No moral or ethical backbone, just common ground beaten by those in political power?...It is the question of human life — the life of the unborn baby — and whether that human life has a claim to be protected by law.
Obama presented a different vision. He argued — or seemed to argue — that justice is something relative, that there are different views about what is just, and that the highest principle of human social order, therefore, is not to find justice itself, and protect it with just laws, but to honor and respect the moral judgments of others, even if those judgments are unjust.
Justice is relative...it's not ok to torture someone, it is ok to abort them...why not abort them years after birth? Would that be ok? Or, does it depend on who is being aborted? Someone with unknown potential - the unborn? Or, someone who masterminds the killing of thousands?
In this vision, wrong has rights. It has rights because the goal is to reconcile competing visions of an uncertain moral law, not to arrive at justice itself. This is Obama's principle of "common ground," where wrong and right are equally at home.
...Indeed, he is proposing, in this passage, just actions. Still, in these words, Obama avoids granting any validity to the pro-life contention: that it is unjust to kill an innocent human being.
Is it, or is it not, just to kill a baby in his mother's womb? From the president, no answer.
I think this is the scientific answers - it's above my job grade - there is no 'scientific evidence'...
For Obama, the highest principle seems to be social peace: if an action is unjust, it can still be permitted for the sake of the general peace of society.
Anything goes? How does a society stop with just one vice? Gambling? Prostitution? ???
...the entire ethical tradition of mankind, the natural law tradition, all unanimously have held that the unborn child should be protected, cherished, nourished, cared for, loved.
This is the common conviction of all mankind at all times, except, it would appear, our own.
This ethic is a true "seamless garment" — protect the unborn child (no intentional abortion), protect the newborn infant (no infanticide), protect the child (no abuse of children), protect the young (educate them and nourish them and confer on them all the hopes for a better future), protect the middle-aged (so that they can care for their parents and their children, by ensuring good work at decent pay), and protect the old — honor the old (no euthanasia).
This is an ethic of life.
And it is not right-wing or left-wing...a society that goes against what all of us know to be true and just and right cannot thrive and flourish.
Sometime, generations hence, our descendants will look back in puzzlement and shame at what we have done, and justified, with specious arguments.
Obama could reflect more deeply, and become a true unifier — uniting with the wise and holy men of previous and coming generations, and not with the utilitarians of the present — if he would embrace the ethic of life.
Read more here -
http://www.speroforum.com/a/19343/Is-Obamas-common-ground-reasonableLots of things to think about. I think Chrysler keeps slipping in because it disrespects those that have saved and lost the fruits of labor thanks to Barack.
jmho
