People in the United States love to talk about their rights as an individual.
Often with indignation and angry righteousness, people argue for and demand their right to think for themselves, express personal beliefs and preferences to other people, and do what they want when they want as their way of making their own choices in life.
Yet when it comes to giving freedom of choice to another person – who doesn’t want to listen, comply, believe, or respond to demands – then suddenly less freedom is given to the other.
From what I see, often people who demand their rights/freedoms the loudest and most aggressively, are people who easily ignore the equal rights and freedoms to others. Anger seems to blind people to their own violent behaviors towards others. Or if they are aware, they tend to defend/justify their violence…is a way to stop violence in others.
Violence to stop violence…hmmm…
If an eye for an eye leaves the whole blind (Gandhi)… then what does full body/soul violence and constant wars do to our world?
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