Tuesday, April 10, 2012

I Want To Help You vs. I Want To Hurt You

I might be missing something, but if I want to help somebody, it's different from saying I want to hurt somebody else.

For example, if I say that I would like to see everyone in America have affordable health care, I'm not saying that I want to take away health care from those who already have it. Or that I want those who are providing health care to suffer or go without payment so that others can have affordable health care. They're two completely different thoughts.

Which leads me to this thought--

"I don't want you to free the slaves! If you do that, then who will harvest my cotton?!"

Seems to me, the only time you're going to be offended or threatened by helping another human is if you've enslaved that other human and you know you shouldn't.

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