In addition to those issues we discuss elsewhere in our website there is a need to discuss an approach
to problem solving that we feel has reached a dangerously low level of educational awareness among the
people of the United States, as well as in the global community.
1.) First
do no harm. The question of who or what harm will be caused by our actions must be asked, and incorporated into our problem
solving process.
2.) The solution to any problem must consider and protect the rights of all who may
be impacted by the problem solving process.
In the United States we have consistently operated throughout our history
without these two processes presence ever having been able to be regularly visible. We live in a society that because
we refuse to incorporate these simple processes into how we approach problems we continuously inflict continuous and
repetitive horrors upon innocent groups of people. Our political and social processes have become all about winning, dominating,
controlling. We have (as a society) forgotten operationally the importance of, the operational needs for our CONSTITUTIONAL
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. Which holds as a recognized truth, something the majority of us demonstrate daily that
we have forgotten, that the individual has Rights that cannot be taken away by the power of the majority, the MOB. A Democracy
that operates in defiance of these principals will always degenerate into something unacceptable, typically being replaced
by something that operates in a rather tyrannical fashion. The reason for this is, purely democratic processes, that operate
without these principles being enshrined into the process are nothing more than the infliction of the will of the many over
the few, Mob rule. In the United States from the very moment of our existence there has been a conflict between those wishing
to have a nation that operates within the operational guidelines that recognize the Rights of the one over the whims of the
many, or those that consider themselves to be the elite, or who for various other reasons have undermined these
sacred processes. At this time our nation is clearly in the grip of those who have worked to eliminate these hard won lessons,
and processes from our collective operational awareness's.
3.) It is appropriate to consider
a balance of harms, a defence of necessity, for lack of a better term, if a solution to a problem may negatively impact the
rights of an individual. However not wanting to be bothered with taking the time to find a solutions that would achieve the
needed results while making the best effort to protect the rights of all, which results in actions being taken that upon examination
are determined to have been imprudent, should be treated as a
serious criminal offense.
With the punishment for said crime being equal to the violation of said group or individuals rights.
4.)
Activities that are participated in by consenting adults, that harm no one, except perhaps the participants, must be recognized
as protected activities, that said adults have a right to participate in. Any laws passed that impact these activities must
be designed in such a way as to only require that those participating in said activities be responsible for harms or cost
factors that may be associated with said activity, while protecting those that do not wish to participate from those same
costs, or potential harms. It should also be said
that the use of processes of taxation voted into place by the
majority, that impact a "targeted" minority, with a clear intent to engineer a particular social outcome that will restrict
the ability of people to participate in a particular activity, is immoral. The only acceptable reason to implement such a
specialized tax would be to fulfill the requirements mentioned above. To create funding sources in order to abate cost
factors from impacting those that do not wish to participate in these activities, to create educational resources that may
be needed by those who may not be fully aware of the potential harmful effect of a particular activity, and to ensure
that those activities that could allow for a person to become addicted are reasonable regulated to disallow the potential
for the activity to be unnaturally enhanced with addictive potential.
I was recently asked about those religious
groups that believe they should be allowed to treat the illness of their children by prayer alone. I do not consider this
to be a protected religious right as practiced, what it is, is actually a serious civil rights violation of children under
the age of consent.
I think it is fine for this to be a protected right, as long as you are an adult, or have reached
the age of consent.
5.) A persons right to privacy, a families
right to determine how they shall choose to live, shall be given, must be given tremendous veto power over restrictive laws
that may intrude too far into their lives, intrude in a fashion that would offend the sensibilities of people that possess
spiritual, or historical awareness's that far too many of us have forgotten. Our society, those within it who have defective
thought processes, have mis-used, the rational of making us safe, as a reason to intrude too far into the lives, Rights of the individual. We must not use the least intelligent of us, the most irresponsible of us, those
of us lacking the most basic aspects of common sense, as the mechanism through which to pass overly restrictive laws that
blanket us all. These types of laws and thought processes must be abandoned in favor of laws that hold the individual responsible
for their actions, while also not allowing them to reasonably endanger those who do not wish
to be endangered.
Someone came up to me and said, "the most efficient form
of government is a dictatorship". I told them that, "Our nations founders recognized from the beginning that the
form of government that they were trying to establish would be one that would take constant vigilance, and the most effort."
I told this person that, "this was a result of the founders recognizing the lessons of history, and trying to incorporate
as many safeguards into the system as they could reasonably devise."
I failed to mention
that dictatorships become very inefficient as more people begin to resist the negative impacts on their lives that such a
society will always inflict.
