Thursday, November 16, 2006
Time Will Tell
Life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" so says one Thomas Hobbes. Laws, rules and regulations were then made to introduce some semblance of order, laws that worked by removing some of our rights; mostly along the lines of our rights to do exactly as we pleased. And then more laws were drawn up to return to us what was taken from us. I mean like, what's the deal? Redundant much? As much as I realise that life without laws is indeed "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short", I cannot help but believe that this whole business is nothing more but an exercise in futility.

These laws are just coded words. They do not prevent the next door neighbour from putting his hands down the pants of the little girl next door. They do not stop the desperate jobless from robbing the equally desperate senior struggling to find relevance in a youth, beauty and wallet oriented world. Oh sure, these laws provide punishment to the wronger and so-called justice to the wrong-ee and may act as a deterrent to those thinking about being a wronger but it does not exactly solve any problems does it? Humans are by their very nature selfish but social which is an oxymoron that breeds more trouble than you might imagine. What we're looking at is in fact what I believe to be a fundamental flaw in the entire system of the world.

Gay people the world over fight for the right of their existance, a war waged against the straight majority. The ask for the right to marry. What right is there to ask for I wonder and from whom? These institutions of humanity, placed to introduce order has in fact fragmented people more than ever. Far as I'm concerned, everyone is free to maryy whosoever they please, there are no rights to be fought for for these rights are natural to people. One does not need permission apart from the one to whom one is getting married to, its as simple as that or at least it should be. So thank you Brad for your commitment to fighting for equal rights and stuff but no thank you. I believe gay people do not require an advocate for something that they should be able to do if they please. Weird isn't it that there are laws preventing men from marrying men and women marrying women when there are laws allowing every American a right to bear arms with results as can be seen in Columbine. I honestly cannot see how lesbians and queers marrying each other is an endangerment to society. Where do their priorities lie then?

Now if only people learnt how to be really nice to each other and to look out for each other, then that life would make Marx smile in his grave. But it's a Utopia which will never be achieved. people will ever be dissatisfied due to the inherrent inequalities of life. There will be those rich living among those poor. People in power do not want to relinquish said power to those struggling to take it from them. Everything is, to the very end, zero sum even to resources as inpalpable as friendship and love.









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