Truthfully, another reason I haven’t been writing so much is because of the past few months, I’ve been meditating a bit deeper on my values… specifically my political views. Not only have I been trying to better understand what I feel to see if I can better associate myself with an established category, I’ve gone a step or two deeper. On each issue, I’ve stopped, asked myself and considered why do I feel that way.
On some domestic issues, it’s easy. For example, I’m pro-choice… but why? What is the underlying ideology, and do I apply that ideology across the board? In this particular case, I think it comes down to individual, personal freedom. I should dive perhaps one step deeper, but at this stage, I’m confident in holding that each individual should expect (eg, is entitled to) a level of self-governance and personal decision-making freedom to do whatever they want, as long as exercising that does not infringe on anothers ability to do the same.
[Note here that I personally do not consider an embryo to hold the same entitlement as a full-fledged "person" but have not yet concluded exactly when that embryo becomes a "person" with said entitlement.]
Perhaps some better examples would be wearing seat-belts or helmets, smoking or recreational drug use. In these cases I say, “To each, his own,” if you’re willing to live with the personal consequences.
Well, with that, I’m going to skip ahead and, without a lot of detail or background, ask…
Is there a such thing as an anti-Israel neo-con?
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