(June 21, 2016 at 3:57 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I understand it, but I don't agree with it.
I'll be real, I feel less threatened by openly gay/trans people (and straight women) carrying guns than I do straight and/or religious men. Nobody should be carrying guns really though.
I do too, but more guns is not the solution. Like war will bring peace is like fucking for virginity.
I get the anger, and I get the desire to defend yourself, but the problem in our entire species history has always been the same. We protect our group, what is local, what we are familiar with, and in the process of responding to violence on our group, our species has far too much of a tendency to respond in the same manor.
No, this is not a call for political correctness one bit. It is a call to my species to put our priorities in order. To put problem solving above labels and greed. To know that no matter how much we cuss and bitch, we are not a separate species. But at the same time, we cannot be afraid to challenge what is clearly compartmentalization to justify individual, political or tribal power.
I think the best starting point any human can have in approaching a disagreement, is to know our species and planet is much older. To know our universe will be around with no record of our fighting that we partake in currently. I will never hate any human who advocates non violence, even if I hate the logic of the positions they may hold. It isn't enough to say, "I have a human right". Nobody should disagree to your human right to make any claim you want. But to say a position deserves blind value, by proxy of position, economic view, race, religion, nationality, in a 13.8 billion year old universe is absurd.
