Rich and Poor
Should laws favor the poor? Should laws protect the interests of the rich? The Bible indicates that laws should do neither. Favoring the rich does not provide justice for the poor, and favoring the poor does not provide justice for the rich. What is not mentioned is mercy, charity, and good deeds.
The more we use laws to define special groups for separate legal justice, the more people will want to be members of special groups to obtain the special benefit.
If we say that disabled people can get money from the government, people with any difficulties will seek out ways to get defined as disabled.
If we say that we will allow minorities to have preferential admissions to schools, students will look for ways to be members of that minority. DocBrain knows of two examples: a young woman of European origin whose parents became temporary citizens of a Latin American country before moving to the USA. She got preferential treatment as a Latino. Another is a young white teen who joined the African-American Student Association at his high school (no school associations can exclude based on sex or race) and included this information on his college application. He got accepted with a scholarship to an ivy league school although he only had mediocre grades.
Hate crimes represent another similar problem. They are sold as a way of preventing a felon from getting off from a crime against a minority because of bias of the jurors. Two wrongs are felt in some way to create a right.
What we need is a fair judicial system and people who are committed to charity, good deeds, and mercy. It is people of this type who mainly make up our country, and, for that reason, we need laws that reflect an equipose.
The more we use laws to define special groups for separate legal justice, the more people will want to be members of special groups to obtain the special benefit.
If we say that disabled people can get money from the government, people with any difficulties will seek out ways to get defined as disabled.
If we say that we will allow minorities to have preferential admissions to schools, students will look for ways to be members of that minority. DocBrain knows of two examples: a young woman of European origin whose parents became temporary citizens of a Latin American country before moving to the USA. She got preferential treatment as a Latino. Another is a young white teen who joined the African-American Student Association at his high school (no school associations can exclude based on sex or race) and included this information on his college application. He got accepted with a scholarship to an ivy league school although he only had mediocre grades.
Hate crimes represent another similar problem. They are sold as a way of preventing a felon from getting off from a crime against a minority because of bias of the jurors. Two wrongs are felt in some way to create a right.
What we need is a fair judicial system and people who are committed to charity, good deeds, and mercy. It is people of this type who mainly make up our country, and, for that reason, we need laws that reflect an equipose.
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