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December 04, 1996

Leave Everyone Alone

What I think is that everybody is too pissed off at everybody else to get anything serious done. If we could just leave everyone alone to do as he or she pleases, and if we only punished those who hurt others or stole, we would have things just about as good as they are going to get.

I think what we need to make universal is the idea that we are each our own individual human experiment, and not a one of us can unequivocally declare that he or she alone knows the correct or best way to live a life. We have yet to agree upon The Rules, and we may never know The Meaning, so why is everybody always hassling everybody else?

I say, "Leave 'em alone!" Whoever "they" are. Nobody ever got anywhere by picking fights.

So if we're all these individual experiments, wouldn't we get more done if we let everybody do their own experimenting? Humans have shown themselves to be pretty smart on more than one occasion, and some of humankind's greatest contributions have come from perverts, junkies, and addicts of every kind. Nearly everybody's got their own form of self-indulgence or self-abuse, and each of us tries to settle our inner conflicts in our own way.

I think that we can all agree that you shouldn't hurt other people, and you shouldn't take their stuff. If you don't agree, I think you are wrong, and part of an extremely limited minority.

So let's cut it down to two laws: 1.Don't hurt anyone (that includes killing) 2.Don't take someone's stuff.

Let the judge (or better yet, the jury) figure the rest out. Isn't that what they're there for?

Posted by Lance Brown at December 4, 1996 07:51 PM | TrackBack

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