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The debate over vaccine mandates has brought up the endless debate about whether or not it’s okay to force people to do the “right” thing. It’s not just an endless debate, it’s an endlessly pointless debate.
The answer is NO. It’s not okay to fore people to do what you think is the right thing. We do have laws that prosecute people who don’t do the right thing, like murdering or stealing. Forcing people to do the right thing will only ever make things worse…like communism levels of worse.
You have to accept that you can’t force people to make the right choices. You can cajole, incentivize, inspire, even help. But when push comes to shove, every person must be free to make their good choices and their bad choices. For one thing, it allows people to learn their own life lessons through trial, error, and consequences. For another, it prevents you from burning out. If you’ve ever been in a job or a position where you feel like you are constantly cleaning up the mess from the bad choices of others, you know what I mean.
The annoying thing about people is that they have their own minds and their own motivations. The annoying thing about our own selves is that there is a little piece of narcissism in all of us that lets us believe we know best, we know have the answers, and we have the ability to shift the direction of another human being’s life if we just push hard enough.
My father-in-law is a pastor and as a congregant in his church, I watched many broken and desperate people collapse at the alter each Sunday and beg for God’s forgiveness, repent, beg for help to change. I watched them weep as they swore off drugs, alcohol, sexual deviance, abusive behavior. Early on during those years it always moved me to tears. It brought me hope. It is a very intimate moment to share with another person, even in a room full of people, when they finally surrender their brokenness and recognize they cannot walk another step without God.
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