Tha Wilkuz Zone

jojolovesamelia:

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

You don’t have to be gay to support the LGBTTA community.

It took me a while to type this up because I wanted to say it just right, and in fact when I was done I ended up deleting about a paragraph and a half because it didn’t really help my overall point. But I’m pretty proud with how it turned out. To give you the back story, my friend’s mom posted a Facebook status that I will copy and paste here, but basically it was saying their was no right and wrong without a religious belief. I’ve had many conversations about this in the past with others and felt I should at least post a general idea of why this is a false premise.

”If there is no God, then really there is nothing that is right or wrong. It is just what you want to do. Whether that be work or not work, kill or not kill, molest or not molest. Interesting. Just thinking in words this morning.”

That’s only true if you only guide morality in terms of its biblical definition, and even then most people only look at certain passages not the entire scripture. People happily quote Leviticus 18:22 while ignoring Leviticus 11:8 or Leviticus 19:19.

I think the best basis for morality comes from our own declaration of independence.

‘We hold these truths to be self–evident,
That all men are created equal,
That they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights,
That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’

Basically every man, woman, and child should be allowed to do whatever they wish to do in such a way that they are guaranteed the possibility of a life of freedom and happiness. This means that anything that would infringe on another person’s freedom or happiness, or especially cause harm, is not allowed and should be punished. In most cases, the punishment should either be an eye for an eye or a reasonable inference.

If one does not wish to work, then they don’t have to. But unless their friends and family are willing to take on the burden of supporting them then they will quickly perish. However, it is not required of anyone to take care of them. Anyone that chooses to do so, even at the risk of ruining their own personal happiness, does so by their own choice. In this way, I see a lot of my friends helping take care of their deadbeat family and friends because they feel obligated to. They aren’t required to but they are making a choice to sacrifice their happiness so that their loved ones do not end up dead or on the streets.

In this way, killing and molestation are very much evidently wrong. If you kill someone, unless they were universally hated, which I find hard to believe – in other words, there is not a person on this earth that cared for them in any way, not family, not friends, not even a kind soul who generally cares for everyone – then you have caused the person that loved the murdered person pain and sadness. Molestation, whether it be a child, man, or woman is the same way. No one has the right to force themselves, sexually or in any other way, upon another person against their will.

Morality is an easy issue once you think of it in terms that every man, woman, and child has a right to freedom and anything that is done that inhibits another persons freedoms is immoral act. Obviously this leaves room for gray areas, but the world is hardly made of up just black and white scenarios.