Civil Order
One of the big life differences is between most of us and the “Progressives,” those like George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg and our other multi-billionaire oligarch rulers and their social media who seem to advocate and have, by political machinations and billions of dollars, moved us toward abandonment of “Civil Order.”
Civil Order is basic communal behavior, adopted by humans since people were first with people (that’s a long time ago), under which we have rules, in a democratic society, rules adopted by us or by our elected representatives, that we all agree to abide by, with anyone including ourselves who breaks the rules being discouraged, if necessary punished (the police function), so all abide by the rules we’ve all adopted.
Civil Order is all of us agreeing to follow the rules WE have adopted so our society is stable.
Rules we’ve adopted include such as stopping when the traffic light is red, not stealing and not murdering.
Advocating that those who break our serious majority-adopted rules not be punished is advocating abandonment of Civil Order, the most basic rule that we live by.
Life Rules
We all face challenges now, they seem like a lot, with many stemming from divisions between us. Many of those divisions result from differences in our Life Rules, more generally called our Life Philosophy or maybe our world view.
The fundamental Life Rule is Civil Order which many now want us to abandon.
Immigration- Part of the Progressives’ anti-Civil Order agenda is opening our United States to free immigration by anyone who wants to come here.
Our basic Civil Order also includes private property ownership.
The property we own includes not only our physical property such as land or money but also American privileges such as freedoms we’ve earned as a nation through our hard work and great successes and, when regrettably necessary, we’ve defended at high cost forcibly in wars.
It is also abandonment of Civil Order to allow others to freely enter our country thereby availing themselves of our hard-earned property such as even just access to our public spaces and privileges such as health care.
Those who advocate non-punishment of those who enter the homes and businesses of others and destroy by burning or steal their property are advocating abandonment of private ownership rights and Civil Order.
Those who advocate open borders, allowing others to freely take what is ours as Americans, stutter and mumble if we ask them, “Do you lock your door when you leave your home?”
They advocate their own Civic Order private property rights but not those rights of others.
If they truly advocated open borders, opening our property and rights to all, they would open their homes to all to come and enjoy and take what they wished.
Anti-vaccination
I am #1 Christian, #2 Conservative, #3 Republican.
I have good Christian conservative friends who are opposed to vaccination. I don’t understand their Life Rule or philosophy that supports opposition to vaccination.
To me anti-vaccination is not Christian- Jesus and the bible never taught against vaccination. Jesus taught Peter, “Feed my sheep,” and we’re also taught, “If your enemy requires your cloak, give him also your tunic.”.
Anti-vaccination is also not conservative, conservativity being basically our trying to conserve the good, familiar, and long-proven values of yesteryear. But no value of yesteryear includes knowingly accepting increased risk of disease. In yesteryear we were much more free of disease (?really? at least free of fearful knowledge of disease) so now being free of the fear of COVID through vaccination would be the more conservative way. We were free of fear of COVID in yesteryear and we can now conserve our previous non-fear of COVID by vaccination.
Note: Our Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protects us against search or seizure of our “person,” so vaccination, an invasion of our body, can never be required by our government. No government entity can require vaccination of us. Opposition to government-required vaccination is fully correct and necessary.
Homeschooling
Eleven percent of American families are now homeschooling as compared to 5.4% before COVID.
A large survey found the common denominator among these families: most started homeschooling as a temporary measure but decided to continue because they found homeschooling was very beneficial for their children.
Yes– we support public education whose American early adoption by our nation’s founders is one of the primary reasons Americans are among the happiest and have one of the highest standards of living among all nations.
And we all agree- good education must be equally available to all American children!
But government-operated schools, like all government operations, are very imperfect.
Now during COVID masking, homeschooling families can avoid the injury caused by school masking.
None of us should blindly advocate home, private or public schools against the other– they’re all imperfect in obvious ways.
The additional very critical issue is that religious education, essential in very many families, can be included in home or private education but is prohibited in public education.
Should we advocate public schools above currently-in-many-families-better homeschooling just so public schools get the support and money so they are able to do their imperfect masked job of providing equal education to all students?
For those families who are time- and skill-capable of effective homeschooling, and many families are- yes- capable of it, under the current damaging public school masking requirements, homeschooling is better than public schooling.
Murder
Many apparently feel intentionally killing an innocent person is OK, just acceptable everyday behavior. Television news is full of people killing other people for almost no reason, sometimes in “drive-by” shootings, targeting no one.
Often these murders are not prosecuted aggressively, sometimes not prosecuted at all.
We who are conservative believe, (I suspect ALL of us believe) as we were all taught in our homes and families since childhood, that murder is very wrong, unthinkable in everyday life.
Guns are not the problem. The problem is loss of the Life Rule that intentionally killing an innocent person is wrong and unthinkable.
Correction of the murder problem must include, firstly, re-establishing our Life Rule that murder is wrong and unthinkable. And secondly, that a person who intentionally kills an innocent person must be stopped from killing again by arrest and punishment.
New Russian module spins space station
Russia’s new space station module, Nauka, mistakenly fired its thrusters after docking on Thursday.
The mistake caused the entire space station to spin around 540 degrees and flip upside down.
NASA and Russian flight controllers were able to get it back to its original position after an hour.
Info: shpr.fyi/naukaspins
Dave Bunting, Aug. 9, 2021