The Compassion Check-List

Marjorie,  yes, the Democrats have a long and detailed check-list of how the government is going to spend money solving the nation's problems.  Some Republicans have one too, though not as long. The appeal of Ron Paul is that he doesn't have a list at all, preferring that the government stay out of the compassion business. 

It's hard to trust anyone, including Democrats, who espouse compassion with acknowledging the fundamental basis of compassion, respect for life.  I believe they have compassion, but I don't trust what they are going to do with it.

I will never forget the ethics class I taught my very first year as a college professor. A young mother told me that she had aborted her first two babies because "she loved them."  I asked her how abortion was an act of love. She replied, "because I did not want them, it was loving not to bring them into the world."

That's the problem with groundless compassion, it can be used for anything, including euthanasia and genocide.