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Old 12-22-2005, 05:39 PM
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What you're complaining about is that everyone in the world doesn't have the same moral compass as you do. Society's values don't necessarily run in the same direction because society has different agendas.

Consider that some people are concerned with human rights. Others are concerned with our responsibility to humanity. These seem like the same thing, but they aren't necessarily. If I tell you that I have a right to free speech and free action, therefore I can say and do hateful, disgusting things, that is a focus on rights. A focus on responsibility would be me refraining from saying those things because even though I have the right to do so, it doesn't benefit society or humanity to say or do them.

Some people are concerned with peace while other are concerned with doing what is right. Sometimes doing what is right may mean going to war. I've heard people say that war never solved anything. To them I say that war stopped the Holocaust of the Third Reich. Sometimes peace leads to slavery and death.

Certainly human rights and peace are good things, but sometimes we have to do what is right instead of exercising our rights. Sometimes we have to set peace aside to help someone else.

You cannot expect all mankind to agree with your values, but you can find others who share similar values and work together with them for what you see as the betterment of mankind.

-- Jeff
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