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Self Defense – Religion and Politics
So asking the question, “Is self defense a reasonable course of action for a law enforcement agent?” where the answer is dependent on circumstances, results in a definite, “Yes!” where I’m concerned. You may think that’s unreasonable, for my part I cannot agree with you if you do.
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Nationalism – Religion and Politics
You have the right to look at and even practice nationalism as you choose. For me, it means being a part of a group greater than myself, with aspirations for a better future, first for ourselves, and finally, to those outside our borders. I hope this clarifies the position of what I imagine is a great many people who espouse nationalism.
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Overreaction – Religion and Politics
I’m not saying you should necessarily “count to ten” before you take action (as maybe your mother or father told you was wisdom). Then again, I’m not saying it’s a bad plan either. One way or another, we must seek to ensure we don’t make matters worse than they are already, by overreacting to that which occurs around us.
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Civil Obedience – Religion and Politics
So you may believe adhering to societally normative standards is some sort of waste of time, but in reality, that’s what makes it easier to live in our little communities. If you honestly think the extra two minutes or less, or other meager benefit you get from most acts of civil disobedience is worth it, I suppose nobody can convince you otherwise. As for me, I’m going to work to make myself as polite and adherent as possible. In doing so, at least I, and people like me will hopefully help to make the difficulty one experiences at times living among others, more tolerable.
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Civil Disobedience – Religion and Politics
I’m not arguing that civil disobedience should be a way of life. Most of the time, one ought just to accept what’s expected, act accordingly, and move on. At times though, not choosing the course that may cause you to be seen as flouting societal mandates may be more than reasonable, it may be more or less essential.
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Conservatism Versus Progressivism – Religion and Politics
Concluding, I get that there are essentially three types of people, those who are conservative, those who are progressive, and those who don’t fall neatly in either camp. My assumption being that the third group is not a large one. The conservatives are largely motivated by a desire to keep things as they are, making changes as and where needed. The progressives feeling things need to be changed for more than one set of reasons. I don’t see how anyone can know about the third group.
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The Perfect Government – Religion and Politics
So again, if you ask the question, “What does the perfect government look like?” the simple answer is, “I don’t believe there can be a perfect government, any more than there’s a perfect man now on Earth. As such, it doesn’t look like much of anything.” That doesn’t mean we stop striving towards the best possible government. It just means, where we work to get as close as we’re able to perfection, we should expect never to reach it.
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Did You Suspect? – Religion and Politics
I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed that many of the people protesting are not those the movement says it’s in support of. That to me, is a very telling fact.
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Humor – Religion and Politics
If you think that expressing things in humor should absolve you from inspection, I would urge you to change your consideration in that regard. The fact is, humor—as with poetry, and other forms of art—can be extremely effective vessels for the transmission of meaning from one to another, or potentially even to large numbers of others.
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Peaceful Protest – Religion and Politics
The whole point I’m trying to get at here is this. The fact that you can demonstrate, doesn’t necessarily mean you should do so. Further, if you do, you should probably know why you are doing so. Finally, protesting things where what you’re fighting to fix isn’t broken is bound to make you look awfully silly. The summation then would be, if you’re going to protest, make sure your cause is real, and by preference righteous.