Might makes right

It seems to me that there are more important things in the world to think about than local politics, but from time to time it is impossible to ignore. The Oregon state legislature just passed a law that makes it a felony to sell someone a product intended to be used for suicide.

If you will recall, Oregon was the first state to legalize doctor assisted suicide. The disgusting thing to me has nothing to do with suicide, or end of life care, or even the fact that under the current laws there are procedures that will extend life that are not covered under the Oregon Health Plan, but doctor assisted suicide is.

The real thing is the state uses the force of law to create a monopoly. They take away the free market option for a procedure that is within the current law to pursue. How is the world better for having this law? How much of our freedom will we give to the nanny state? In exchange for what? In this case, we don’t even get anything out of the deal. We only give that which cannot be returned.

I used to believe that there are simple things and complicated ones. I am beginning to think that the simple ones are either imaginary, or not properly examined. When I said that I felt fine and that nothing has changed, it still did not say exactly what I meant.

There is a world of existence, and there is a subset of that world, it is called Nothing. Contained in this subset, there are things such as zilch, naught, bubkis, nada, zip and nil. It was this subset that had changed.

Now I have a handle on it. The big handle. The one you can see in the distance, but never quite get to. The grand, overarching mother handle at which all the little handles feed. Having a grip on this sucker puts you in charge.

Top of my game.

That’s what I keep telling myself.