Let's return to the current health-care/health-insurance reform debate. I found the following interesting in an article by Daniel Callahan, titled "America's Blind Spot, Health Care & the Common Good":
"Suffering, disease, and death are our common lot. They ought to be dealt with as our common problem."
And then, in a blog response to the article, LaVonne Neff (who describes herself as "an amateur theologian...constant reader, and Christian contrarian.")writes, "Callahan expertly diagnosis our problem, but he does not offer a solution. National revival comes to mind, but America already has a much higher percentage of church-going Christians than the countries that take care of all their poor and suffering. Maybe we won't really care about the common good until more of us Americans experience poverty and suffering first hand."
Framing this debate in the term "common good" may offer room for good conversation that has not yet been allowed to take place.
I hope so.
Also, I want to become a "Christian contrarian" someday!
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