Jack of Harts

I addressed my First Principles yesterday. My absolute first one is that I want everybody to be free to say and do what they want, as long as they don’t harm others. My First Principles also apply to the stuff I am against. The really short version is that I’m against forcing people to do anything against their will.

When somebody asks me what I want to do, and I ask in turn “what do YOU want to do,” I really mean it. I want to know what they want to do, because I don’t want to ask them to do something they don’t want to do. And when someone offers to do something, when I say “if you are willing to do it,” I really mean that as well. I take joy from doing things I want to do with other people that want to do that same thing. I don’t want to force people to do something they don’t want to do.

And that is why I oppose political efforts to do precisely that. Yes, that does include efforts by the moral majority to make laws forcing people to do stuff that follows their faith. The old moral majority did that too much when I was young, which is one of the reasons why I have such a healthy distrust of government busybodies. I simply disagree with forcing others to abide by a morality that is not their own. And I disagree with the NEW moral majority seeking to force us to follow THEIR moral guidelines for the same reason. Because I don’t want to force people to do something they don’t want to do.

I want you, the you who is reading this right now, to be free to do what you want to do, not be forced to do what someone else tells you that you should want to do.