you may notice that my last post was inspired by the gay marriage ruling, but didn't speak on why i'm upset about the california ruling on same sex marriage, or why, specifically, i think it went down they way it did. i guess i'm just over it. as i've pointed out in an earlier post, there really was no way california could have redeemed itself to me. i'm embarrassed, on this front, to be a part of this place.
more importantly, i am embarrassed to be part of a country and, quite honestly, a civilization that has allowed civil rights, civil law, and human rights to get muddled up into one another until the latter finally got snuffed out by the two former.
and yes there is a difference between these things.
there is one fundamental human right, it's in the goddamn declaration of independence: the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. or, to put it more simply, the right to live.
a law is something that is supposed to protect the basic human right to life. for example it is my right to get blasted on vodka if i want to, but if i were to try to drive my car while drunk, i could very well put a sudden and painful stop to someone else's right to live. so there are laws against that kind of behavior.
a civil right is something that needed to be created in post, because we as humans have created a system that infringes upon that one basic human right. a civil right is a woman's right to vote; a citizen's right to medical care; things that all fall under the human right to life. laws and amendments and such are put in place to protect these rights, because, apparently, otherwise we might forget.
it makes me wonder what the hebrews behaved like before moses came down from the mount with the ten commandments...
oh, thou shall not kill? well, it's a good thing you told me. i was about to finish this guy off then go fuck his wife.
amendments 13, 14, 15, and 19 to the US constitution, for example, are not necessary. not because they were not important decisions that needed to be made, but because the abuse (or absence) of the rights that they address is not specified earlier in the constitution. what i mean to say is, nowhere in the constitution does it say, "all men are created equal except black ones, and women shall get in the kitchen and make me a goddamn sandwhich, and shall give me no sass. it's not like we're giving them the right to vote or anything". it's amendments like the aforementioned that simply point out how quickly we would devolve into an abusive and immoral wasteland if someone wasn't always watching our asses at all times. but i guess we're too stupid to figure that out.
bunch of microcephalous idiots, we are.
suggested reading:
1. the constitution
*please try to at least read this one. i think it's too important that we all finally take some time to sit down and have a good read of this document that we live under every moment of our lives.
2. the declaration of independance
3. don't know much about history kenneth c. davis or a people's history of the united states howard zinn
4. why we can't wait martin luther king jr
*no fun stuff this time, but hey, there was no homework last time, so it all evens out.
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