Natural Consequences

Natural Consequences

I believe in allowing the natural consequences of ones own actions and choices to be played out. To do otherwise, is to play “God”. No one has the right to play “God”. Only the Creator can be the Creator. Natural consequences, is all about taking responsibility for the choices one makes. That is a hard things to say in today’s time of the insurance society in which we live, but it would be the answer to a lot of societies problems.

Man has no right to take the life of another without just cause and due process. Meaning, if an individual murders another, that individual cannot be executed without being tried by more than one witness in a court of law, by a jury of that individual’s piers. The same goes the other listed crimes against an individual.

The Bible does give specific occasions and methods of individuals to be in the role of the Creator. They are murder, a myriad of sexually related crimes, a variety of thievery offenses and assaults. These are all crimes with a victim, who had an injustice performed against them.

There are a list of other topics I will discuss in this thread of “natural consequences” and how they should play out naturally. The first is abortion.
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before its naturally occurring time.
Abortion is wrong no matter how you look at it. It is playing the role of the Creator to terminate a pregnancy. Only the Creator can take a life and terminating a pregnancy is taking a life.

There are many reasons why a woman might want to terminate a pregnancy, none of them justly. I will list and discuss all of which I can think.

The woman cannot afford to take care of the baby. The woman should not have engaged in the behavior that caused her pregnancy. The baby is the natural consequence of having sexual relations, if one does not want to get pregnant, one does not have sex. What happens to the baby in these cases? There is always adoption. There are plenty of couples who want a baby that cannot have one. They may even be able to pay for the baby to be born.

The woman may simply not want the baby. The woman should not have engaged in the behavior that caused her pregnancy. The baby is the natural consequence of having sexual relations, if one does not want to get pregnant, one does not have sex. What happens to the baby in these cases? There is always adoption. There are plenty of couples who want a baby that cannot have one. The couple needs to take responsibility for their actions and not try to escape their responsibility.

The woman may have been raped. This is a tough situation, with a tough answer. Many a woman put themselves in danger by their lifestyle. Their lifestyle put them at risk to be raped or they did not do what it takes to keep themselves safe from being raped, or their husbands and father did not do what it takes to keep their wives and daughter safe. Now they have consequences for those poor decisions. The man who raped the woman should pay all the cost for having the baby come to term, before he is executed for his crime. The baby could be then given up for adoption.

The baby could have a defect that would make it difficult to care for daily. That is the risk of every pregnancy. Most times defects can be avoided by eating a proper diet or not engaging in risky behavior, such as smoking or drinking or taking drugs of any sort, even prescription drugs. If the mother and father engaged in risky behavior, or did not educate themselves well enough to have a healthy baby, then they should be willing to take the responsibility for their actions.

What if a female child was raped by her step dad and became pregnant and the carrying that birth to term would kill that child. The natural consequences of that action was that that child would die and in the long run that would be the right thing to happen, because the mother should have paid attention to the red flags that were there when she met that man, and she should have not married him. She needed to take responsibility for the choice she made. The step dad should pay the ultimate price for his wrong deed. That is why he is executed for this crime, because it would be as if he murdered the girl.

Purchasing insurance is a wrong, because it relieves the individual of any responsibility for any of the actions the individual does, which would be covered by the insurance plan. It spreads the responsibility around to people who are not involved with the action.

For example, automobile insurance; if a driver had an accident. He or she should pay for the accident fully out of their own pocket. Instead all the people who paid into the insurance company pay for that accident, making the driver not fully responsible for their actions. In fact, in most cases the penalties paid by that person would be more severe. Over a short period of time those kinds of accident would diminish because people would be more cautious and would eventually be a better driver or they would not be driving at all.

What about health insurance? People live careless lives, eating whatever they wish, doing whatever they wish, without regard for the consequences. They do not do proper research to inform themselves of the possible risk to certain types of behavior or actions, but then they want everybody else to pay for their risky behavior. If an individual smokes cigarettes and gets lung cancer, they should pay for their own doctor bills. They should not sue the cigarette makers and have the cigarette makers pay their doctor bills. People need to live smarter or else take responsibility for their own actions.

Living a life of total responsibility would end a lot of frivolous living and lawsuits, and it would make people more responsible. It would bring to life what my wife calls the Darwin effect, survival of the fittest and smartest.

I do not believe a person should engage in infertility procedures in order to become pregnant. If a couple cannot have a baby, there is probably a good reason for the inability to have a baby.

We also should not be importing vegetables, because in order to import vegetables they have to be harvested when they are not ripe. They also will not taste good, because all the flavor is put into the vegetable while it is ripe and not before. A fruit or vegetable is more nutritious ripened naturally verses forced ripened. This is playing “God” with the growing of our food. Man thinks they know best how to grow and make the fruits and vegetables. This also goes for genetically altering the food, whether it is plant or animal.