re: Would you save a dying kid?

Posted this on the PT the other day:

1."What if a neighbor (with modest income and no real savings) has a sick child who needs $50,000 for surgery, and the neighbor knows that I have cash in my safe at home? Would it be OK for him to rob me at gunpoint, taking my money because it’s to save a child?"

2. "What if the neighbor takes a vote of the people living on the block and 51% of them say that I have to give him the money? Would it then be acceptable, moral, or anything other than criminal, for the neighbor to come to my house and demand that I hand over the cash?"

3."What if 95 percent of my neighbors say so?"

4."is it OK for those very same people to elect a politician to do the very same thing? Is theft more palatable with a middle-man?"

5.If not, then why is it OK for a United States Senator to take my earnings and give them to someone who “needs” the money more than she believes I do, with a similar threat of violence or prison against me if I refuse to comply?