day eighteen

Your beliefs...

It's funny, when I read this topic, I kind of rolled my eyes. My beliefs? About what? God? Religion? Government? Life? Upon further thought, I realized that all of those things are inextricably connected. But what I'm going to focus the most on is moral relativism. We have gotten to a point where people can literally deny that there are any objective rights and wrongs. "It's all relative"... that implies that there are no absolutes in the world (the irony is that the statement "everything is relative", is actually an absolute. So either there is one exception to that rule, or people are just stupidly defying all laws of logic. But I digress).

"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."

(Casey v. Planned Parenthood, 1992)

What?! Are you kidding me? So I can decide that I believe that my concept of existence is purple. There is no meaning in the world, the entire universe happened because an elephant sneezed, and human life is actually a dream. And no one could tell me I'm wrong? No, none of that makes sense. Yes, it sounds crazy. But somewhere along the lines, we got freedom confused with free-for-all. There MUST be moral rights and wrongs in natural law. There are! We are just, as a country, getting pretty familiar with denying them.

Just think about this. You have a group of 7-year old kids who have never seen a baseball game in their lives, but you throw them out onto the field and say "go play". No rules, no regulations. What happens? Chaos. Not only does nobody win or lose, there is literally no point. We're the little kids, and the baseball field is the world. If we don't start playing by some rules, we're pointless. Speak for yourselves, but I don't want to be pointless.

So, to conclude: I believe in undeniable, objective moral truths.