Two Stories
Two different people decided to tell me this story regarding my more liberal political views: The story is about a girl who writes a paper in a high school class about democratic policies, she worked very hard on the paper and felt confidant that it deserved an “A.” She gets the paper back with a “C-” on the front. When she asks the teacher about the grade, petitioning that it was a really great paper, the teacher agrees and says that she is right, the paper deserves an “A,” but the rest of her class did not write “A” papers and she must share her grade with the rest of the class because that is the democratic thing to do.
Ha ha ha right?! No. This story equates a grade on a paper to life and death issues. How about another story I heard recently: There is a man who has the AIDS and needs to take medicine daily to stay alive. He falls in love and marries a woman who also has the HIV virus but does not have medicine. He is now forced with the question, do I share my drugs with my wife and have a high percentage that they don’t work for either of us or do I give them to her and die or do I keep them for myself and watch her die?
The first story is about a grade on a paper, sharing resources so that everyone does well in school. The second story is about a man, who without shared resources will die.
The stories go on and on, people who live not only without health care but also without food, shelter, and education… people in the States and countless more overseas.
I want to support policies that make a better life for everyone and reverse cycles of poverty… even if it means that I lose a good portion of my inheritance.