Equality and justice (#1076)

Basic human rights, although I get the distinct feeling that some among us do not share that definition. Certainly these two rights have been fought and died for over our human existence and that they are taken for granted should never be the argument. But to single out some over others as within our ability to define equality and justice is subversive. Nothing, and I mean nothing, philosophy/religion, economics nor societal conventions should ever counter the status of equality and justice for even one soul. We have laws that are agreed upon for the sake of security and social function but these laws should not have any component of inequality or injustice within them. If they do they need to be rewritten to eliminate inequality and injustice. I am saddened by the forces that would marshal against individuals and groups whose right to equality and justice is based upon their right to the freedom to pursue their own happiness without causing harm to anyone. The prejudice of selective idealism is a cancer and not worthy of a modernity that prides itself on the intellectualism of logic and liberty. The harbinger of past myths and superstitions is the callous admonition of their value over equality and justice. Nothing should ever come between our earned and natural rights of freedom to be in a protected equality with all others. No one paradigm or dynamic of thought is above or below another. They are reason and as such deserve equal contemplation. Attraction to principles for living must come from a desire to achieve an individual happiness for each person, not a domain that must include others who do not share the same desire. Forced participation in any analysis is antithetical to our rights to search out and find our own happiness.