I Don't Believe In Prayer
I don't believe in prayer. It never worked for me.
I do believe in rights. The people should be free.
If the state can say and prove a parent isn't right.
Then fine, then let them take away the child from his plight,
But there's responsibility. Without excessive force.
A parent has the right to just let nature take it's course.
You'd let a bunch of fools; jurors, judge after the fact?
Hell no! The mob has never yet produced a lucid act.
Parents are the ones to say a daughter or a son
Is treated thus, or thus, or thus; or let's take up the gun.
For what is life if one must lay awake in fear at night
Wondering if the new day will take another right?
Please tell me what you think
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this is really amazing!
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I think that this is pretty well written. Some parts feel forced, but overall I feel like your writing was very smooth and gave your opinion on the subject with a poetic twist.
I dont know if I agree.. I am still deciding how I feel about the subject. The story in the prompt, that I thought was wrong.. the treatment is not invasive and therefore, I think the parents had no right to hold back treatment.. but I might feel differently if the child had cancer... I just dont know yet.
Thank you for this thought provoking piece.
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It's the same old euthanasia issue from a different angle.
What makes me think is
Suppose things get a bit worse-the people that need drugs start to die-the people who need insulin die-the people in nursing homes die of neglect. You may think that is far fetched, but look at all the folks who are dying from AIDS because they don't have drugs. Look at the ones who were abandoned in New Orleans a couple of years back over Katrina. Maybe we'd be better off letting people die off naturally. I don't say start shooting them: that gets us into the who Hitler thing, but just let them die. What do we need all these people for anyhow? -
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Well, I respect everything you're saying, but that last line was rather harsh and sounded a little self centred. I'm not trying to offend you in any way; I just want to say that everybody good is important in the world.
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I think you mis-understand me.
I'm not speaking of any particular group of people. I am pointing out the fact that the Earth is overpopulated. Think of it as a David Suzuki type statement, not an Adolph Hitler one.
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