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One main problem or issue that was addressed in the fourth chapter that caught my eye was the discussion of abortion rights for women. This goes along with my previous post about moral rights and how the government should or shouldn’t put themselves into certain situations.
What makes the government feel like they should impose on certain problems and not others? What gives the government the right to invade on a woman’s choice about abortion but not the family issues of abuse or marital rape? These are all questions that arose while reading the section about abortion rights. The problem I have with abortion is that it is a woman’s choice what happens to her body but how far does it go until it becomes a problem with the government? Why does the government still feel the need to interfere with a woman’s choice?
I still do not understand what gives the government a right to get involved with a problem or issue that should be dealt with either the person involved and the doctor or even to the local and state governments. The federal government has too much on their mind to even think about, much less actually do, interfere with small issues that don’t concern them.
The other issue that caught my eye was the one about equal pay for equal work. I understand that women should be paid the same as their male co-workers but it is difficult. How can equal pay be delegated when two people of the opposite sex may do two different job titles? For example, say that all teachers should be paid the same; the ones with Masters all get a paid a certain rate; the ones with a Bachelor’s degree get paid the same. Problem being, what if one teacher is working harder and more efficient than another and they are getting paid the same? This problem arises because how does one evaluate that teacher A is doing more work or harder work than teacher B?
There are so many problems with just the two examples that I have given. I don’t understand, again, why the federal government should be putting there foot down on issues that, personally, shouldn’t affect them. These issues should be resolved and decided by the local and state governments.
Mental Models of Purpose of College
2 years ago
I feel like the federal government feels the need to get involved in matters like this because the issues affect them as well. Federal government is made up of men and women just like the people at drake. They aren’t some all knowing entity or anything like that. I kinda think of the federal government as like neighbors that have issues like they live next door to a wife beater, or they live next to a rapist and they (the federal government) are trying to decide what to do with the issues.
ReplyDeleteI think you raise an interesting issue here. My thoughts on your argument against government involvement at least in the case of abortions is that when they grant women the right to choose they are effectively saying that it is none of their business. By granting the right I think it would be the same as if you asked me if you could use a green pen in class and I were to respond that its none of my business what you right with. The only time the government is asserting some authority and claiming it has a reason to be involved is only when citizens try to prevent others from having an abortion. Thus they must step in only to continue the claim that it is not anyone's business whether others are having abortions. Another issue also comes with trimesters and at what point does a fetus have rights if ever and all that jazz. As far as domestic violence and marital rape, Wellman says that many states have made marital rape illegal and I think there are laws against domestic violence. The idea of work effort rather than work load is an interesting one to think about. In my experience with group work there are usually people who work harder than others in a group, should they not receive greater benefits for their extra effort? Sadly even thought I think this would be agreed in a court but would be almost completely impossible to prove that an individual was doing more work than her coworkers of equal status and training.
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