The Parable of the Concerned Citizen and the Concerned Citizen’s Neighbor

One day while teaching, Josh was asked, ”Teacher, how is information about the new healthcare laws best distributed around the country?”

Josh spoke thus:

A concerned citizen was building a wall.

“The government won’t do it, so I will,” the concerned citizen told the concerned citizen’s neighbor, “We need a wall.”

The concerned citizen’s neighbor looked on as the wall grew higher.  The concerned citizen’s neighbor said nothing.  The concerned citizen’s neighbor was considering helping the concerned citizen extend the wall, once the wall reached the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s property.  The concerned citizen’s neighbor was also concerned that the government was not building a wall.

The concerned citizen and the concerned citizen’s neighbor were not concerned with the wall that was missing between the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country’s neighbors.  The concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country’s neighbors were wealthy, and immigration into the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country from the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country’s neighbors was not a problem.  In fact, if anyone would have built a wall between the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country and the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country’s neighbors, to prevent immigration between the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country and the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country’s neighbors, it would have been the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country’s neighbors, and not the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s country.

The wall the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s government would not build was a wall between the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s county and the concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s neighboring county.

The concerned citizen’s and the concerned citizen’s neighbor’s neighboring county had just legalized medical marijuana.

“I don’t want to smoke marijuana,” the concerned citizen said to the concerned citizen’s neighbor, “I don’t that drug lifestyle in my life at all.”

“Do we have to smoke marijuana?” the concerned citizen’s neighbor asked.

“If we want to go to the doctor, we will,” the concerned citizen said, “The doctor will make me.  It’s medicinal.”

“What if you don’t go to the doctor?” the concerned citizen’s neighbor asked.

“What are you, stoned?” the concerned citizen said, “At my age I’d have to be high not to go to the doctor.”

“You’re high if you do, high if you don’t,” the concerned citizen’s neighbor said, “Pass me a trowel.  They’re tripping if they think I’m going to let them force drugs into my life.”