social contract - don't tell me what to do!

[Karlin]

It is a simple concept - don't tell me what to do and I won't make demands on you either. We agree to live within the bounds of moral conduct, don't steal from each other, respect our personal space, etc etc - this is basic stuff too, stuff we knew as toddlers.

A social contract of sorts, a sign of civilised society.

Now that the re-emerging Religious Right has abandoned that contract, what would be the reasonable response from people like me who have zero association with anything religious? Do I have to raise my level of protest to what they are using? Does making laws that take away rights mean the victims have to fight back "with the only resources left to us"?

Southern USA groups taking away SSM and abortion rights are the spark for this tirade.

Karlin

PS - since when did hitting Control-W make the webpage shut off? - I was trying to post this earlier, with many links etc...., and it blinked out... odd, that it should happend on this topic!!

 

[jimmoyer]

The liberal left and the Religious right really need to get to know each other better.

Until this happens, they'll both portray each other as cartoons.

 

[Andygal]

RE: social contract - don

the left already knows plenty about what the Religious Right is about.

And we don't like it.

 

[Shiva]

PS - since when did hitting Control-W make the webpage shut off? - I was trying to post this earlier, with many links etc...., and it blinked out... odd, that it should happend on this topic!!

I posted an article earlier and used the proper format for the link (title) and instead of showing the title that I had inserted, the word 'link' appeared as a hyperlink instead. Something seems to be wrong with the forum's software.

 

[jimmoyer]

Good for you.

But the argument between the Liberal Left and the Religious Right contains good points on both sides.

 

[Karlin]

thats a good point, we need to get to know each other , it never hurts to talk, unless it confirms our greatest fears.

It seems they don't want to talk to us at all, they are shutting us out.

This "telling the rest of the world what to do" based on their religious beliefs, makes it so we are in their "realm" then. How is that fair to the raped woman or gay person where they are putting up those laws against them?

And here we will see Kansas "teaching" Intelligent Design ONLY in schools if they have their way-
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110905L.shtml



Now ok, I know "they" are not all the same. Not every religious person is up my skirt to obey THEIR doctrine, many don't have doctrine at all really.
I hope those ones speak up WITH ME against the tyrants who would have us all "be like them". It is a sickness we have seen throughout human history. Healthy people, without insecurities, don't do it, they let others make their own choices.