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Mailbag: “Sam, If adversity is so great for immigrants, why not save some for the rich people? Why rob wealthy people of the chance to work their way up from the bottom? 100% inheritance tax. Who’s with me?”
The Thought Provoker:
Sam is first up this week, Are kids medically treated too quickly with medications for aniexty vs teaching them coping/problem solving skills earlier on in their life on what anxiety is, why we have it and how to cope with it? Are parents spending enough time or do parents have the tools now to teach their kids coping/problem solving skills? Are we teaching our kids problem solving skills and coping skills early enough? How does this set up society for when these kids become part of the workforce?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/shortage-of-mental-health-services-for-teens-forces-parents-to-take-desperate-measures
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-youth-mental-health-crisis-worsens-amid-a-shortage-of-professional-help-providers/
Utah has the highest rate of mental health illness in the U.S. study shows (abc4.com)
Next up, Shawn: Ana Kasparian, recently lamented that Gavin Newsom’s far left administration in California gave $18mm to non profits such as “being alive” to provide crack pipe kits to people in LA. Biden gave $30mm to provide "A safe smoking kit” that contains alcohol swabs, lip balm, other materials to homeless drug addicts. Do these examples not make the case for a smaller, limited government and show that government is bad at spending other people’s money. Do these examples prove Milton Friedman's teachings on “the 4 ways of spending money”?
Lastly, Matt. Nvidia co-founder and President, Jensen Huang was recently asked that if he were magically placed in the same situation he was in 30 years ago when he and his friends discussed starting his company, what company he would talk about starting. And he said that he wouldn’t do it because building Nvidia turned out to be a million times more difficult than he expected it to be. He says that every entrepreneur thinks it will be easier than it actually is to start a company. That if they really knew how hard it was going to be, nobody would start a business. First, is he right? Second, if he is right, does society have a moral obligation to make it easier to start a business? Does it really need to be so hard?
Big Question:
Some LDS scholars argue that restoration scriptures teach that the best way to approach conflict is with peace. “the scriptures constantly seem to be pointing us to what Moroni calls a more excellent way and what Paul also refers to as a more excellent way, which is the way of love, the way of approaching violence and conflict with a kind of confrontational compassion or assertive love that will transform the conflict in ways that responding to violence with violence will not and that tend to just spiral the conflict instead.” They argue that peace can be confrontational, but never contentious. Right now, the world is ablaze in conflict. It Is true that the Anti-Nephi-Lehis died rather than take up arms, but Captain Moroni fought violently to defend his people. Is there a higher and holier way to engage in conflict? Is peace the higher way, or does it really just depend on th
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Send us a text
Mailbag: “Sam, If adversity is so great for immigrants, why not save some for the rich people? Why rob wealthy people of the chance to work their way up from the bottom? 100% inheritance tax. Who’s with me?”
The Thought Provoker:
Sam is first up this week, Are kids medically treated too quickly with medications for aniexty vs teaching them coping/problem solving skills earlier on in their life on what anxiety is, why we have it and how to cope with it? Are parents spending enough time or do parents have the tools now to teach their kids coping/problem solving skills? Are we teaching our kids problem solving skills and coping skills early enough? How does this set up society for when these kids become part of the workforce?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/shortage-of-mental-health-services-for-teens-forces-parents-to-take-desperate-measures
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-youth-mental-health-crisis-worsens-amid-a-shortage-of-professional-help-providers/
Utah has the highest rate of mental health illness in the U.S. study shows (abc4.com)
Next up, Shawn: Ana Kasparian, recently lamented that Gavin Newsom’s far left administration in California gave $18mm to non profits such as “being alive” to provide crack pipe kits to people in LA. Biden gave $30mm to provide "A safe smoking kit” that contains alcohol swabs, lip balm, other materials to homeless drug addicts. Do these examples not make the case for a smaller, limited government and show that government is bad at spending other people’s money. Do these examples prove Milton Friedman's teachings on “the 4 ways of spending money”?
Lastly, Matt. Nvidia co-founder and President, Jensen Huang was recently asked that if he were magically placed in the same situation he was in 30 years ago when he and his friends discussed starting his company, what company he would talk about starting. And he said that he wouldn’t do it because building Nvidia turned out to be a million times more difficult than he expected it to be. He says that every entrepreneur thinks it will be easier than it actually is to start a company. That if they really knew how hard it was going to be, nobody would start a business. First, is he right? Second, if he is right, does society have a moral obligation to make it easier to start a business? Does it really need to be so hard?
Big Question:
Some LDS scholars argue that restoration scriptures teach that the best way to approach conflict is with peace. “the scriptures constantly seem to be pointing us to what Moroni calls a more excellent way and what Paul also refers to as a more excellent way, which is the way of love, the way of approaching violence and conflict with a kind of confrontational compassion or assertive love that will transform the conflict in ways that responding to violence with violence will not and that tend to just spiral the conflict instead.” They argue that peace can be confrontational, but never contentious. Right now, the world is ablaze in conflict. It Is true that the Anti-Nephi-Lehis died rather than take up arms, but Captain Moroni fought violently to defend his people. Is there a higher and holier way to engage in conflict? Is peace the higher way, or does it really just depend on th
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