Sunday
9/6/98
Politics and Wealth
1. What is the best form of government and why?
None of the ones that are in existence today, frankly. Everything is constantly changing, though, and perhaps we'll find one that's perfect. My idea of the perfect government would be going back to public lynchings. No real set of laws, but if you murder my brother I'm going to kill you in a very very unpleasant way. I've always wanted to be a knight, for as long as I could remember, and if we did away with set law, there would be people such as me out there doing good things and avenging certain wrongs. That is a very, very vague representative of what my ideas on the perfect government are, but the exact theory is 14 pages long, if I remember correctly. A while ago, I also thought to the idea of a very strict government, sort of communism reformed. With the threat of debt and the absence of any legal loopholes to slip through, no one would break the law. That would be putting our hands into the political leaders and lawmakers, though. Government as a whole is still transforming and changing. It's a relatively new thing in the scheme of evolution. Give it time, it'll fall together... or it won't...
2. What responsibility does the state have for the individual?
There are people who we have elected to oversee the events and things that go on in our state. They have a direct responsibility to serve their terms as fully and as well as they can. They have to be, in a very minuscule way, martyrs for their elected term. The president attempts to oversee all of the people below him and make those split-second decisions that we just don't have time to vote for every day, the governors of the states oversee all of the mayors and people below him to make sure they do their appointed jobs, the mayor oversees her minions in the government office who keep the city running, her minions sweep the streets or run the convention center or make sure the library gets proper funding, ect...
3. What responsibility does the individual have for the state?
But who are all of these government officials doing all of this for? The common citizens. As citizens of Nevada, we have to pay our taxes so that we can pay our government officials' salaries, we have to generally abide by the laws set for us, and we should have a general respect for our officials, our statesmen, our state, our country.
4. Is one ever justified in breaking the law? If so, when?
I don't believe that anyone should have to justify themselves. We all know the laws, or should look them up before we break them, and choose to follow them or not. Courts do not put someone on trial for the reason they broke the law, but if they did or not. If you choose to break the law, for whatever justification you give yourself, you must be prepared to suffer the consequences. There are some laws that have really no purpose being there. People choose to break them. I choose to break them curfew law in Las Vegas most every night I can't sleep because it has no purpose in my life. I am just going out for a walk to ponder or sketch or just walk, I'm not hurting anyone. I am prepared to suffer the consequences, though, and have been subject to the law on several occasions because of this. I understand the purpose of the law, to keep delinquents out to do harm off of the streets late at night when there is no one there to stop them, but I choose to break it because I am not out to do harm. You can't tell that to the cop who stops you, though. One important issue I'd like to bring up are sodomy laws. It doesn't really matter because they aren't really enforced and there's no real way they could be, but people should be able to "make love" (breed) any way they want to. That's just one of my little irritations with government, though...
5. Are there any issues about which the government should not make laws?
*chuckles to self* See the aforementioned sodomy laws.... Others I feel are really pathetic include same-sex marriages, sagitory rape, minors smoking, drugs, alcohol (but not drunk driving, mind you), explicit materials being posted on the internet, and many more. I feel I should give some reasoning behind my condolence of smoking, drugs, sex, and alcohol. If people are going to do it, please let them do it. Trying to prevent them just gives them a thrill out of knowing it's illegal and keeps the population rising. Let all of the drug addicts overdose and die. Let all of the smokers get lung cancer and die. People are going to do it if they are going to do it. Making it illegal just gives those adrenaline junkies out there another reason to do it. I believe that it's each individual's choice to decide what they want to do to themselves. The DUI laws and others keeping people under the influence of drugs or alcohol from hurting innocent people should stay in effect, though. People still don't have the right to kill other people because they had one too many hits or swigs.
6. Would you, at this point, affiliate yourself with any particular political party? If so, which one? If not, why not?
No, and I don't think I ever will. I don't understand why people do. It's just another label to stick onto people, just another source of corrupt money for corrupt politicians. People fight too much as it is without arguing over the words "Republican" and "Democrat." They are just words, pointless labels. They don't really mean anything (by using the word "republican" does it change any of your beliefs or who you are? I don't think so.
7. Are there any issues or causes about which you feel so strongly that you would take significant action? protest? fight? go to jail?
Currently, the Riot Grrl chapter we are putting together is organizing a protest in front of modeling/photography agencies in the area about eating disorders and women's rights. I take significant action all of the time dealing with what I believe. I don't want to impose my beliefs onto anyone else, really, but I am going to make sure that they know I think they are doing a bad thing. I have been to several protests, mainly about women's rights, but I do feel strongly about women's rights. I don't believe anyone should ever fight. Inflicting physical harm onto someone else for your cause is self-destructive. If I chose to break any laws, I would go to jail, it all depends on what would make me want to break a law so badly.
8. What value does money have to you?
Money is of almost no object to me. I need money to eat and live and a little for a bit of fun on the side, but I am very generous in my use of money. I lend to people I know can't pay me back, I take people out to lunch when they're feeling down, I buy welcome back and get well presents, if anyone honestly needs the money and I can give it to them, I will. Money is a mere necessity to live. Any extra is mostly shared with others, for the benefit of others.
9. Does wealth also create obligation?
Nothing creates any obligation to you, you just have to know what's right or what you think is right. I will never be wealthy because I give too much away. Someone who is wealthy, in my opinion, honestly should share. Why keep it all to yourself when you could help someone who could really use it?
- UrielsPoet
previous thoughts of the day
Thursday, 9/3/98
Wednesday, 9/2/98
Saturday, 8/30/98
Thursday, 8/28/98
Wednesday, 8/27/98
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