Playing God

When it comes to rationing care for the well-being of others, especially during times of a natural disaster, doctors and health providers come face to face the weight of (what seems ) the world on their backs. what is the morally right decision for doctors? Are we ok with the fact that in unfortunate times, we give them the power to "play God"? Hauntingly enough, we must ask the terrible question in a time of crisis:Which lives matter more?
In Sheri Fink's article, she writes about both sides, the patients, the doctors, and higher authorities, when it comes to this matter. One question in particular was how they should go about the business when a ventilator is being taken by a patient who isn't improving; or to be harsh about it, when another patient could be getting better use of it. Dr. Eric Toner, a senior associate a the UPMC Center for Health Security said that taking ventilators from patients who weren't appearing to be improving was "the single most contentious issue". the decision is up to them. Doctors have been faced with the tough choice of having to choose who should be treated with limitations of ventilators and supplies. In all reality however, when unsettling situations like these leave doctors to make life or death decisions, it's hard to say who's "playing God". People can argue that no one should have the right to have that much control over another person's life; but then again what is a doctor who never makes mistakes? God? As Christians, we need to understand that we must face imperfect things in an imperfect world.

Freedom of (Speech)

In today's day and age, the millennials have started the never ending debate of free speech and "safe spaces". the question being, if these ideas are able to coexist on campus, or start an argument that has no end in sight. In Albert Mohlers article, he writes about how much the millennials are demanding for restrictions on what students can or cannot say on campus, and how they are expecting a safe, equal environment for their studies. What these students are failing to realize- or refusing to see- is that before them the age of the Baby Boomers had fought passionately for the rights which we seem to have taken advantage of. Now I understand that with everything that is going on in the world, there is bound to be fighting arguing, and plain- disagreement, but I think we millenials' have gotten to the point of crying over nothing. Back when the Baby Boomers fought for their rights, it was one of the many sparks that created the flames of a time of change in America. Now, it seems we are in the midst completely changing our minds as to what we want to be said to us.