Here's my message to the Democrats, Republicans, Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Pelosi, McCain, Boehner, Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, NBC and Fox News..etc. etc. etc...............................not everyone who you disagree with is a demon, a Nazi, a bigot, or un American.
I don't mean that there are no monsters among us. McVee is a monster. Those who use their religion as an excuse to fly into the World Trade Center or blow up innocent people in Bagdad and Afghanistan are monsters. Hitler was a monster. Stalin too.
However, I think these people are monsters because of what they did..... not because of their beliefs!
I admire people who devote their lives to something they believe in .... this includes those who picket outside abortion clinics. However, I condemn the person who takes a gun into a church and murders a doctor! I was against our involvement in Vietnam and supported student activism.... but those who bombed buildings and killed innocent people are simply killers who should be punished by our legal system and not hide behind the First Amendment.These days, as in the past, there have been people who want to demonize the opposition. That is not the America that I want to live in.
Anyway, I wish that we all could stop the name calling. Why don't we try to tell the truth and condemn all those who lie and distort the truth?
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ReplyDeleteConsider how much bovine scatology we pass to each other on a daily basis: as children promising our parents we'll turn the light out "in a minute", as parents encouraging our children to write a letter to Santa Claus, or the claims of any product in any advertisement, or anything any politician might promise.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it might well be hardwired human nature to distort the truth or omit information in the pursuit of what one might claim as a "greater good" or something "noble", or just something "innocent" and well intentioned.
I think we are all guilty of this to some degree or another.
Thus, I wonder if the question we should ask ourselves might be whether in seeking our most sacred goals a Machiavellian approach, that is "the ends justify the means", is completely moral, absolutely immoral, or the line of right and wrong is out there in the gray somewhere.
In regard to free speech and our rights under the constitution, we could start by positing that honesty is not synonymous with truth, and that reason is often treated like a naive superstition.