Title: How National Health is like Personal Health
Original CoS Document (slug): how-national-health-is-like-personal-health
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Created: 2022-12-15 10:08:01
Updated: 2023-06-26 23:00:20
Published: 2022-12-15 03:00:00
Converted: 2025-04-14T21:21:44.348404259
Every one of us chooses - discriminates - between what gets into our bodies and what does not. We all scrutinize every food, every drink, even the quality of every breath of air that we inhale and allow into our bodies. This is because everything we let in becomes part of our bodies – becomes us.
We allow entry to what adds value to our lives; we deny it to those that either do not add value – or remove it.
Since the discovery of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and worms, we humans have become even more careful about allowing their 'immigration' into our bodies. We have learned that it is more than okay to deny unwanted 'visitors' that remove value from our lives. When these creatures regularly harm us, we call them enemies.
We regularly remove these creatures with no regard for their well-being because we strongly believe they will harm us and impoverish our lives. When we believe that these creatures merely are on our borders - our skins - we have no hesitance to protect ourselves. We even remove these creatures before they reach our borders, when they are only in our proximity. We sanitize surfaces in our kitchens; we wipe down our bathrooms - truly every room in our homes. We perform similar tasks as they relate to our clothing and even our food.
Everything that is allowed entry into our bodies must match our value systems, our principles. These things must all be life-nurturing, enriching, strength-adding, or happiness-increasing. All else is denied entry. We do not allow insects entry. We do not allow spiders entry. We keep snakes at a distance.
To add more weight to this analogy, human lifespans have doubled and nearly tripled since our ancestors started acting on the discoveries of these facts about harmful illegal immigrants. As a result, we became healthier and happier. We progressed living more fulfilling lives.
Moving up a level in this analogy, we choose to deny entry into our homes. We address those things we strongly believe will remove value from our lives or the lives of our home-mates – and the home as well.
At the next level, we live in communities among other families who share approximately the same set of values and principles. We have homeowner associations, zoning commissions, and neighborhood-watch groups in order to ensure that our communities all share and maintain similar values and principles.
Finally, let's move up one more level. This country, the Great Experiment, is a collection of like-minded, like-valued, like-principled communities that all contain similar individuals. This wonderful collection of communities shares in the value system and principles of the US Constitution.
This country became great due to its founders’ deep understanding of the free enterprise nature of life on this planet. Our Constitution's principles reward behaviors that promote health, strength, and happiness. Look around. Countries that do not do this are ones that have many unhealthy, poor, weak, and unhappy individuals. Many of these individuals strive to leave their country in order to live here.
This argument is NOT suggesting that we treat all immigrants like we treat viruses, bacteria or worms. This argument IS suggesting that we become and stay very selective about whom we let into this wonderful, healthy, strong, happy country, especially if we continue to love these traits. Let’s continue to value what we value. Let’s continue to honor and keep to the wonderful set of principles in the US Constitution.