This topic applies to both politics and life in general. It may sound a bit confusing, but stay with me for a minute. Every day we come across people debating issues. Roe vs. Wade, gay rights, equality of pay for women, space exploration, etc. There never seems to be an end to these debates since each person is extremely convinced about their position. I’m not here to question the validity of each of these issues; I’m just trying to present a different approach to solving these issues.
Instead of arguing about what’s currently right and wrong or what currently makes sense and doesn’t, it’s very important to look forward into the future to see what the inevitable outcome of these issues will be. To understand this argument, let’s analyze the past for a second. Let’s take slavery or civil rights. There was a big debate (heck, an actual war!!) about whether slaves should be freed and later on whether blacks should have equal rights. Instead of arguing and fighting about it, if they had stopped and realized that this slavery system will not last forever and that eventually people will either rebel or there will be a majority who believe that they should be free, then they could have used that information to make their decision. It’s almost like having a crystal ball to see into the future and accept the eventuality of certain issues NOW instead of resisting it.
Take that principle and apply it to 2 big issues of today’s political diversity in this country: abortion rights and gay rights. Anyone with an ounce of common sense will tell you that these are the civil rights issues of the 21st century and that it’s only a matter of time before pro-choice and gay marriages become the norm and not the exception. The people who are opposing that today will be made fun of and ridiculed in a couple of decades. If they can see that now, maybe they can accept this eventuality sooner and save all of us a lot of time!
If you think about it, technology does that in almost every field. Most technological advances are made by looking into the future and coming up with ideas that are not currently feasible, but are inevitable and then working towards that. Putting a man on the moon is a classic example. Concept cars are the main drivers of future car technology. Sci fi movies have pretty much inspired most of the technology that we see today! It’s a practically proven technique; why can’t we apply that to make some of the moral decisions as well?
People who oppose the inevitable simply just have their heads in the sand. Unfortunately, there are enough of them.
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But just imagine if all people go by your thought or opinion, would'nt some kid in the future, who reads history(thats today) comment - "what the heck? was'nt there a single asshole who voiced against this? Was earlier mankind some kind; where all people shared one common-sense?" so lets leave things as they are now... everything happens for a reason .. and even more...Iam not going to accept a huge change in my society without a fight :-)
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next!
GV - I absolutely agree with your last statement about today's philosophy is tomorrow's common sense... case-in-point is the world being flat until it was discovered that it's not. But what I'm trying to say about making decisions around inevitability is to embrace things that are ALREADY common sense to most normal, intelligent, unbiased people. I'm not talking about 1 party government or 1 country supremacy... no. I'm talking about key issues like abortion and gay rights. Can you honestly sit there and tell me that you will oppose these issues now or even more in 10, 20 or 50 years? Can't you see that in 50 years we would have evolved (hopefully!) past these petty religious BS around contraception being evil and gay people being sinners? Right now there are religious leaders advising government to ban all contraception saying that it is a sin to use contraception! At a time when the world is being over-populated (see my other post on that topic), can't people see the danger behind such crazy stupidity? I'm just asking people to look into the future a bit and realize that they are holding on to a lie and that the sooner they come to terms with it, the better off mankind will be.
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