Politics

People tend to agree on things and discuss things but in the sense of politics, subjects tend to pull away from one another.

What is the measure of a rightly organized society?
What do we need more of or less of in this country?
                Freedom?
                Equality?

Tolerance: should we be tolerant to intolerant people? People tend to be less tolerant of others that don’t share their same opinions.

Whoever wins an election, supporters of the person that lost will call it an injustice. However it is in fact the will of the people who got elected. Democracy is the voice of the people.

We want society to operate along the lines of righteousness.

If somebody doesn’t like something, is it their fault?
Somebody doesn’t like bananas. Is it their fault that they don’t like banana?
Somebody doesn’t like gay people. Is it their fault that they don’t like gay people?

Are those arguments the same?
Prop 8: is it just something that has to do with people feelings?
People don’t feel comfortable around gay people so if the majority votes for the proposition is it ok?

We pick people to represent us and we pick one person to govern our lives on a day to day basis. We need somebody that is “WISE”
What makes somebody wise though.
Somebody that upholds rights.

When we make claims about justice, saying something is unjust or just, we say that there is a way the world must be and that you have violated that order.
Therefore it is implied that there is a way the world should be, a structure or order.

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