Such a simple concept yet difficult for our species to implement. We want our freedom to choose our path but we want to impose restrictions on other's freedom when we think it is against what we would do in a similar situation. Why do we think we should think for others? Truth be known we are barely able to think for ourselves with any consistent principled foundation. Yet we cannot stop ourselves from meddling in others' rights. It is as if we are operating our own decision making and choices on auto-pilot so that we can control what others are doing or can do. It baffles me that some of us are so blind to our own maintenance and advancement. I can only assume this unnatural phenomenon is birthed out of our culture and our inability to define a better nurturing system. Education can only get us so far and without a purposeful acknowledgement that we need to straighten out our own lives before attempting to tackle greater communal problems, we will remain with a shifting foundation that sways with the latest attraction. We live in a democracy, wisely established in order to allow for us to learn the issues of the day and then gives us voice as to determine which direction we should, as a whole, follow. The key here is to be informed and allow common sense and objective open-mindedness to dictate our future and not whims, myths or superstitions as an alternative to actually having logical understandings. We are data processors by nature and if we are not utilizing our capacities to focus, reason, analyze and conclude, then we are not living up to the potential we all possess, nor are we equating freedom fairly.
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