This one always puzzles me. When we create laws that generally define our behaviors it is good and right when we are all equal participants in the inclusion of them. That way we all have the same consequences for obeying them and for disobeying them. While in theory this is correct, we have a ways to go in order to get it right in practice. Nonetheless, we have a framework within to perfect. It is when we create laws that punish behavior that is controversial at best is where the trouble begins. Our society is one of human beings who are individuals and autonomous in much of our thinking practices. We many can look at the same situation and come away with many different perspectives, whereas some of us think that our perspective is the only true perspective and with that intent create boundaries that only their limited insight will allow for a particular behavior. An attitude of sovereign control. Instead of allowing for the behavior to work it's way through the intellectual stimuli each of us brings in order to advance the question, it is snuffed out before it can come to any conclusive fruition. It is much like the caveman telling the spaceman he already knows all there is. The patriarchal/matriarchal egoism some have displayed concerning unanswered questions is disappointing. When belief systems and superstitions come to the top of one's principles without valuing the fact that others' of us have principles grounded in objectivity, we all get to take a step back in the evolutionary ladder of our species and although we are a unique and venerable force of will, we have those among us who disrespect those very qualities emerging from within us.
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