Shoot, I can never view anything on YouTube because of my setup here. Maybe the Parkinsons guy was legit, it’s just interesting that his medical issue is irrelevant to the debate. Nobody explored that. Trotting out your disability to invoke sympathy for a cause to which your disability is not relevant is fairly despicable. A parallel is that the Bible says courts should not favor the rich, but it also says they should not favor the poor. Surprised me when I read that, but it informs me once again that G_d’s ways are not our ways.
Well I have a ton of sympathy for Parkinson’s patients. They have a horrible and eventually fatal disease that renders them unable to care for themselves eventually.And they have it trough absolutely no fault of their own.
Lecter makes the point that he wasn’t trying to bait anyone. He never said anything, just sat there in front of them with a sign about his disease as a way to remind them that sick people need help, not anger or derision. He didn’t fight back when they started to mock him, or say anything. And on the video that seems to make somew people angrier.
Lecter’s disability is relevant to the debate because there are a lot of people who are ill through no fault of their own, who can’t work, and who stand to lose everything, including their homes, in order to get so impoverished that they can qualify for Medicaid. And most doctors won’t accept Medicaid patients anymore because the payments they get are far too low. It’s not despicable to remind folks of that.
I’ve always read that Bible injunction as saying that the courts should favor the truth and justice, no matter who is rich or poor. Our ways seem to me to be far too much about wealth and income and caring about how much money we have, or don’t have, or might have someday, or somebody else has. Justice and truth before the Law of God should be men’s ways, not the man-worshiped Mammon. What would be just, in this case?