The world would be a much nicer place to live if people would just agree with a few basic tenets.
1) EVERYONE has the right to happiness so long as their happiness does not cause others pain or anguish.
2) NO ONE has the right to inflict pain.
3) No matter how strange, disgusting, or unnatural YOU feel about what someone else does or feels is. You do NOT have a right to harass, ridicule, or abuse them because you don't like it.
Easy as 1,2,3 no big deal.
Come on planet wise up "Ignorance is BLISS!" and quite honestly if you want to ignore me I will be all the better off for it. I have never minded being ignored, in all honesty I get really uncomfortable when people pay too much attention to me.
Be healthy, Be happy, BE YOURSELF!
Rachel Anne
Comments
I agree with 1 & 2
I agree with 1 & 2 wholeheartedly.
Unfortunately, number 3 is far too broad. You've left a huge opening for what we now call 'political correctness' to go wild.
People _must_ be allowed to harangue, ridicule, or otherwise blow off steam about people and things they do not approve of. What they should _not_ be allowed to do is go beyond that.
In short, anyone can stand on a soap box in a park and scream about how mutant gay lesbian infidel whales are causing a decline in the moral standards of the upright urban chimpanzee. Nobody has to stay there and listen to them.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I agree
providing the strangeness or whatever of someone else's behaviour, isn't actually causing real pain to someone else as per 1 & 2. And shouldn't we have the right to feel offended or amused by others and their strange antics - it's what we do after that counts.
Angharad
Angharad
Intentions
I agree, but for precepts 1 and 2 the word "intentionally" should be inserted. I have seen too many well intentioned acts lead to inadvertent pain for others.
Precept 3 seems focused on psychological aspects of pain. We all need the ability to vent. The only way to determine whether the intent is to harm or cause pain is to look at the circumstances and the spirit or motive behind the attack or action (s).
No act is right or wrong in and of itself. It is the motive/ spirit/ intention behind the action that determines it's rightness or wrongness.
Hugs,
Trish Ann
~There is no reality, only perception~
Hugs,
Trish Ann
~There is no reality, only perception~
I forget who said it, but
I've always been fond of the expression, "The right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." ^_^