Morning Thought - bad people

Okay - it's actually someone else's thought...A friend who'd watched the speech called afterward. He had generally favorable views of it. He mentioned one moment in which Obama excoriated an insurance company for delaying coverage for a woman with breast cancer because she failed to report acne when she signed up. Obama then said "they are not bad people" and blamed "profit motive."

My friend rightfully pointed out that people who delay treatment for someone with breast cancer are, in fact, bad.

I agree. It isn't true to say "they are not bad people" - when what actual people at the insurance company did to this woman indicates a lack of ethics and decency. A badness. Those who think profit is more important than cancer treatment are BAD PEOPLE. Period.

Let us not have any moral relativity about this. "It's just business" is not and never should be an excuse for bad behaviour.