: I knew that by the end of this oratory there would be a call
: for the inalienable right to food. If withholding food is evil,
: then God is evil. His law states that a man who WILL not work
: shall not eat. This posting boils down to a very bitter,
: inedible broth:You must be kidding! I knew that God would be invoked sooner or later to justify the human perversion of his laws. Speaking for God, when he created the world there were no multinational corporations bent on throwing the monkey wrench into his works. Of course, in his times, whoever did not go fishing or did not pluck the fruit from a tree, did not eat. The same law applies now as then: whoever does not fetch food from the grocery store, and carry it home, then prepare it, cook it, and chew it, he also cannot eat, and shall not eat. If he does not eat then he dies. In this case God does not withhold food, but a person intent on not eating is either sick, or starves himself to death in a suicidal attempt. Eating is hard work and no one refusing to perform such work of eating, should be spoon-fed or tube-fed by force. Not much has changed.
The simple refutation of the idea that God himself might be withholding food is the fact that he placed food within the human reach and NOT somewhere high up on a mountain, while asking all his creatures to tread on steps of a treadmill (probably manufacturing some plastic gargoyles), on the way to it, to become deserving.
: There is no simpler refutation of this foolishness than to imagine it's implementation on a desert island with three shipwrecked castaways and one of them getting all into his idealistic freedoms. Good luck buddy.
It goes without saying that the shipwrecked castaway, full of idealistic freedom, refusing to get for himself something to eat, but expecting his two other buddies to feed him, would have very small chance to stay alive on a desert island. We are free to die wherever we happen to be, on a desert island or not.
: You have an inalienable right to breathe, don't you? Hold your breath and see if your inalienable right not to breathe kicks in. Good luck again.
Just refuse to eat and your inalienable right not to breath will surely kick in. And let no man take this inalienable right away from you!
Kidding aside, the gist of my posting was to remove food as an instrument of political and economic pressure, and thus free man from being forced into evil servitude to earn his right to do the work of putting food on the table. Prepayment is universal fact of life: we prepay for our traveling, entertainment, sickness, accidents, and even funerals. It is cheaper that way. Why not prepay for food staples?
Walter Prytulak
