Protestantism

» Brian Tubbs - High Ground

I have trouble seeing how anyone knows what the objective high ground is...

I certainly agree with that, especially when it comes to a complicated issue like this. The point I was making is that once a person, in his or her overall worldview, relegates all of religion and all of morality to the realm of SUBJECTIVITY, then such a person surrenders any claim to pass morally binding or compelling judgments on another person, group, or society. It just ends up with a "He said-She said" back-and-forth.

This is why most organizations that are worth their salt AGREE on some binding, overrarching moral principles that they expect their members to abide by. These moral principles become the BASIS for assessing what things are right, what things are wrong and what things are true and what are false.

I believe that the American Founding Fathers gave the American people those principles on July 4, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence - and we in the USA should stick to them!

I think Australia and all other nations should also agree on certain moral precepts -- and the people in those nations should be challenged to uphold them and abide by them.

This is what we call a MORAL COMPASS. And it would sure be helpful if our society had a consistent, solid, steady, working moral compass as it sorts through this critial issue of health care.