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Leave Everyone Alone
first published- Wednesday, December 4, 1996
I think what we need to make universal is the idea that we are
each our own individual human experiment, and not a one of us can unequivocally declare that he or she alone knows the correct or
best way to live a life. We have yet to agree upon The Rules, and
we may never know The Meaning, so why is everybody always
hassling everybody else?
I say, "Leave 'em alone!" Whoever "they" are.
Nobody ever got anywhere by picking fights.
So if we're all these individual experiments, wouldn't we get
more done if we let everybody do their own experimenting? Humans
have shown themselves to be pretty smart on more than one
occasion, and some of humankind's greatest contributions have
come from perverts, junkies, and addicts of every kind. Nearly
everybody's got their own form of self-indulgence or self-abuse,
and each of us tries to settle our inner conflicts in our own
way.
I think that we can all agree that you shouldn't hurt other
people, and you shouldn't take their stuff. If you don't agree, I
think you are wrong, and part of an extremely limited minority.
So let's cut it down to two laws: 1.Don't hurt anyone (that
includes killing) 2.Don't take someone's stuff.
Let the judge (or better yet, the jury) figure the rest out.
Isn't that what they're there for?
Yours in Liberty,
Lance M. Brown,
Future Presidential Candidate - Year 2008