I feel good!
When a person leaves the voting booth, they usually like to feel as if they are a good person. They want to be happy about how they have voted. While it can be as simple as voting their interests, often it is a vote for a candidate that represents what they believe is the best position on important issues. One of the main problems is the difference between feeling good and doing good.
If you came to DocBrain as a patient, would you want DocBrain to give you a treatment that DocBrain felt good about because of what pharmaceutical representatives told him, or one that, upon review of the available scientific research, he discovered to be most safe, best tolerated and most effective for your condition? If you trusted DocBrain and were unable or unwilling to check up on the treatment options yourself, it really wouldn't matter...you would be happy. But, let's assume that you really do care enough about your health to look into the science, to see what there is to learn. You might then become disappointed in DocBrain if his treatment did not seem to fit the best evidence for your condition. You would want some type of explanation.
DocBrain took science classes in college and had trouble with the words "political science". But, that was years ago, and now much data is available. One can look at the prescriptions politicians want us to take and see how they (and alternative ones) have worked in the past both here and elsewhere. Some sound really good, kind and compassionate, but just don't work. Some sound mean spirited and outright nasty, but work just fine.
If we, the public do not look at the evidence, we will be swayed by the "feel good" that might just be the wrong medicine. A bitter pill sometimes cures the illness that is worsened by the sweet. If you care enough to vote, please care enough to look and see what the true underlying problems are, what the proven effective treatments are, and don't vote for what sounds good...vote for what will be good.
For example, DocBrain heard about protesters who are protesting war. War is bad. It feels good to stand up and say that. However, looking deeper, wars occur when the wills of two groups are in direct conflict. If one group would just bow to the will of the other, there would be no war, no conflict. For example, if you believe that women should not have education or voting rights, that there should be religious and sectarian tests for public office, that the rule of law should be sectarian, that males and specific religious sects should have more judicial rights than others, you would bemoan the US trying to impose its will in Iraq. If you believe otherwise, you should protest against those who fight against our troops. If you believe that, if your neighbor is beating his wife, it is none of your business, how could you, as a good person, sleep at night with the screams in your ears? As Mickey Mouse says, It's a small world after all!
If you came to DocBrain as a patient, would you want DocBrain to give you a treatment that DocBrain felt good about because of what pharmaceutical representatives told him, or one that, upon review of the available scientific research, he discovered to be most safe, best tolerated and most effective for your condition? If you trusted DocBrain and were unable or unwilling to check up on the treatment options yourself, it really wouldn't matter...you would be happy. But, let's assume that you really do care enough about your health to look into the science, to see what there is to learn. You might then become disappointed in DocBrain if his treatment did not seem to fit the best evidence for your condition. You would want some type of explanation.
DocBrain took science classes in college and had trouble with the words "political science". But, that was years ago, and now much data is available. One can look at the prescriptions politicians want us to take and see how they (and alternative ones) have worked in the past both here and elsewhere. Some sound really good, kind and compassionate, but just don't work. Some sound mean spirited and outright nasty, but work just fine.
If we, the public do not look at the evidence, we will be swayed by the "feel good" that might just be the wrong medicine. A bitter pill sometimes cures the illness that is worsened by the sweet. If you care enough to vote, please care enough to look and see what the true underlying problems are, what the proven effective treatments are, and don't vote for what sounds good...vote for what will be good.
For example, DocBrain heard about protesters who are protesting war. War is bad. It feels good to stand up and say that. However, looking deeper, wars occur when the wills of two groups are in direct conflict. If one group would just bow to the will of the other, there would be no war, no conflict. For example, if you believe that women should not have education or voting rights, that there should be religious and sectarian tests for public office, that the rule of law should be sectarian, that males and specific religious sects should have more judicial rights than others, you would bemoan the US trying to impose its will in Iraq. If you believe otherwise, you should protest against those who fight against our troops. If you believe that, if your neighbor is beating his wife, it is none of your business, how could you, as a good person, sleep at night with the screams in your ears? As Mickey Mouse says, It's a small world after all!
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