2016: The Year I Became a Racist Sexist Bigot Homophobe, Part 9 of 11 – Don’t Be a Tool
(My 2016 Presidential Election Forecast Map based on polling data adjusted for guestimated polling source bias.)
by Randall Nozick
(This article is an excerpt from a Facebook post. If you missed it, you should start reading from the beginning with Part 1 – I Dare You to Try to Understand to get the full meaning of the post.)
Part 9 – Don’t Be a Tool
If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t marry someone of your own gender. This topic has been one of the most misused political tools of the last several decades. If “conservative” people had simply said, “I’m not going to do that and I don’t believe it’s right,” and dropped it at that, think of all the bad ideas they wouldn’t have signed onto while trying to enforce that belief on others. The net effect of gay marriage on non-gay people is what? Go ahead, I’ll wait. If you plan to go religious with your response, I’m going to stop you right there with a simple quote from a great book, “…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” And there’s that whole “judge not” thing, the most ignored phrase in Puritanical Christendom.
The protection of heterosexual marriage IS very helpful to a few institutions, though. One of them is the insurance industry. You know, that huge corrupt, colluding pile of money laundering at the center of the “Affordable” Care Act? Not very Godly is it? At the end of the game, this election has proven same-sex marriage as an issue, for OR against, is a special interest most of us just don’t want gumming up the works in our political decisions. By the way, it’s exactly equally as wrong to try to sue a business for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. That incident was pure political terrorism at face value, but beyond that, it was a simple, effective political maneuver. Anyone who bought either side of the story was fooled.
If you don’t like marijuana, don’t smoke it (or vaporize it or make brownies with it or whatever). There is a true risk with long-term use of ANYTHING that “takes the edge off” of causing a human being to be unable to learn from mistakes. It’s that “edge” or more importantly PAIN that makes us learn new beliefs, leading to new behaviors, leading to new outcomes. But finding that pain is one of the most basic parts of maturing. And it is not up to us to decide a recreation taking place in someone else’s living room should be prohibited.
“But it could cause crime to rise!” News flash: That means there are ALREADY LAWS to dissuade people from behavior that might land in your living room. You don’t need another. Or how about, “I don’t want my children to have access to this dangerous substance!” This one will drive many to stop reading right here and now: Raise your children to make the decisions you would make. It’s that simple. Educate them on what you fear about this drug. Instill the integrity to resist peers. Have a little faith that if they try it, they will survive just like you did when you stretched your wings. Take action in your own living room before trying to seize control over someone else’s.
(Please stay tuned for the next part. It’s a long story, so I broke it down into life-sized bites.)
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