What should be the USA’s greatest fear, rather than what is being reported in the news?
My accolades to a columnist in the Chicago Tribune article titled, As we emphasize with addicts do we normalize drug culture, reports her concerns that empathy may be leading to greater harm than good in our society.
Excerpts
“As the fear mounts, many Americans – including parents, lawmakers, health professionals, and policymakers have resounded with empathy toward drug addicts.”
“opioids crisis that causes some 115 deaths a day.
“are we relieving addicts of responsibility for their own actions”
” Does taking away the fear of injury or make us enablers?”
“Does it place too much responsibility on people who do not use drugs?”
“Perhaps we should ask ourselves if we have gone too far?”
Purpose of this Post
Is to add my concern that the USA should probably fear drug addiction more than Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc etc.
King Solomon
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverb 9:10)
What’s My Point?
Fear is one of the prime motivators to change behavior, human or animals. When we relieve humans from the responsibility and fear of foolish choices not only do we become enablers, we may also become promoters to increase folly in others.
If you are not a drug user, same as if you are not a sinner, you have nothing to fear.
However, if you are a parent, a driver on roads, or a concerned citizen in your community, perhaps you should fear drug addiction?
In My Opinion
In today’s news, we read about the efforts of politicians to promote fear of Russia, and every other nation in the world follies of politician’s choices made.
In the meantime, 115 deaths a day are equivalent to war casualties reported in world wars.
The King Solomon wisdom proverb that fear of the Lord is fear to lose one’s soul when they die, not to fear that God will punish us. While we are on earth, we need to understand that it is not God punishing us, we are punishing ourselves by making foolish choices. In other words, we are the masters of our own disasters.
Eight States have approved legalized recreational marijuana to date. By doing so, they are not only becoming enablers to increase drug addiction, they are in fact promoting drug addiction.
What to Do?
In the USA, politicians only respond to the crisis. If voters would understand that they better start calling both their politicians and news media to take a time out from focusing on every other issue and resolve this issue plagues the USA, families, and communities, they will respond because it is election time coming up.
The issue needs more than empathy of love, it needs the responsibility of wisdom, to be remedied in my opinion.
We should begin by telling everyone who buys any drug both prescribed and illicit, they are responsible for making the choice they make. In other words, no buyers, no sellers, no fear, no problems will result.
If Interested,
In previous posts, I addressed each of the above opinions, or, if interested to understand how your community ranks in severity on the drug problem. read the posts in the Source Links below.
You Decide
If you agree, contact your legislators and your news source editors.
If not, two idioms will result.
“If things do not change they will stay the same”
“it pays to advertise”
In my opinion when legalized recreational drug sellers begin to promote marijuana the number of users will increase. Whether it leads to opium addiction, if it helps you to know, the CDC states only a significant number of marijuana users will bridge to more potent drugs.
Regards and good will blogging.
Spource Link
https://wallethub.com/edu/drug-use-by-state/35150/
Previous Posts
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/07/06/king-solomon-wisdom-rights-responsibilities/
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/07/13/king-solomon-recreational-marijuana-mendacity/
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/05/17/king-solomon-or-something-else/
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/06/02/king-solomon-183000-market-analysis/
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/04/29/king-solomon-drug-addiction-hiv-aids-std-who-or-what-to-blame/
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/07/10/king-solomon-who-why-and-where-chicago-conundrum/
What should be the USA’s greatest fear, rather than what is being reported in the news?
A lack of love for each other.
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Why should lack of love be feared?
Love can be nurtured in time,. in other words, a person still has a percentage of hope that his or her lack of love will be “cured.”
When a person is dead, there is no hope for a future.
Anyone who is among the living has hope
-even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! (Ecclesiastes 9:4)
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You stated — “Why should lack of love be feared?”
My response — I was just referring to the “The Greatest Commandment” given by God. But your faith has different priorities or understandings from mine and that’s fine. We can agree to disagree on this one.
28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[e] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[f] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[g] There is no commandment greater than these.”
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Keep in mind, if you believe in this Commandment, the purpose was addressed to the living, not the dead.
That is my point why you should fear the issue of this post.
. If you followed the advice of Jesus Christ, you would love yourself enough not to become a drug addict..
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I don’t want to conflate multiple topics into this response of the OP. Let’s keep it simple.
The question was: “What should be the USA’s greatest fear, rather than what is being reported in the news?”
My answer is: “A lack of love for each other”.
The reason being: “It’s the greatest commandment given by God”.
My faith leads me to the greatest commandment for an answer.
Your faith leads to different answers we can agree to disagree on this.
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The post topic issue is fear, not lack.
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Ahh I see, so you are saying I have not answered the question of , “What should be the USA’s greatest fear, rather than what is being reported in the news?”, with my answer of , ” A lack of love for each other”.
So I think that their greatest fear should be the lack of love in relation to the greatest commandments from the Bible.
Let me try to better address the question from a secular perspective to satisfy the OP.
They should fear technological inferiority in respect to other super powers. Technology could render of military and economic might useless.
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That is a genuine fear in the USA. That is why just today Congress approved 700 billion for military in 2019.
Just curious, you said “they.” Care to state what is your greatest fear?
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That AI won’t take over in time to end mankind’s madness.
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Frankly, I do not understand your comment.
Who or What is A1 and what do you mean by “won’t take over in time to end mankind’s madness.”
Care to elaborate?
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I think there was a typo again: It should have said AI
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