Steven's definitely right about both sides of the argument, that most people prefer to just talk than rather actually do anything to help people. Most people are full of crap, regardless of what they believe in.
This is why I am happy that there actually are a few pro-life people out there (including Rick Warren) who have figured out that actually doing things that show you care about life are more important than saying you care about life.
I feel the same way steven does. I have done plenty of volunteer work for the last three years and even ran a volunteer organization (unfortunately I don't have the time anymore...law school consumes your soul...).
But one of the reasons I am liberal is because I don't think it is my job to go around policing what people do. When there are reasonable grounds for disagreeing about an issue, I think people should be free to do whatever they want as long as that choice isn't directly harmful to society.
It's perfectly fine with me that some people think abortion is the worst thing on earth. Don't have an abortion, that's fine with me. But I want to know who gave them the right to tell everyone else what to do. There are reasonable grounds for disagreeing on whether or not abortion should be allowed, so why should the government step in and control people's decisions. I take the same attitude with outlawing certain drugs. The government isn't our parent (listen to me, I sound like a conservative!). Why should they be going around telling us what to do?
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
