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I think our country is very burried in contradictions. In this
one I'll focus on one specific contradiction. The Constitution and Bill
of Rights prevent anyone from having cruel or unusual treatment imposed
on them by the government. They also allow the death penalty, thus
saying saying that death is not cruel or unusual. Yet, for some odd
reason, they outlaw suicide. This seems to be in conflict to me.
Seriously... think about it. I can think of many people who's lives are
cruel and unusual, not even considering those in 3rd world countries, the
homeless, or the severly ill. I think if genetics, social structure, or
even god, if you believe in one, has deemed that almost the entire
population of adolescent America be suicidal, who are we to argue?
We've seen this many times in history. Antigone, the ancient
greek tradgedy deals with the subject of Man's Law Vs. Gods' Law (The
Greeks' Gods), or fate if you will. It never ends well for the human
population. At least not those affected by the laws in question. I
pose this question to you: On a planet with over 6 billion people,
that's 6,000,000,000, and a country where supposed free will, democracy,
and personal rights prevail, do they outlaw such a humanitarian action?
Anyone that went through public school in the past few years knows what
it's like in there. That's bad enough. But if you actually show a
glimmer of talent, natural ability, or real intelligence and find the
work they give you menial, demoralizing, and aboce all spiteful to you
in general, and hence refuse to do it, they deem you a slacker and a
waste of space. Now hold up. This is a peaceful means to and end. If
one such as myself or anyone else that notices this would ever get fed
up with it, and an actual revolt took place, you'd have some of the
brightest, most intuitive teenagers, in their prime, against the rest
of America's school system.
I'm sure anyone of prominance that suffered the same thing and
is now a grown adult would stand with us on that one. It would be the
dumb people Vs. the 'gifted' people. And I'm sorry if I sound a little
egotistical, but with no class lines, government lines, or rules, you
will lose. Period. But I stray from my topic. If you can get some
sense of what I'm talking about, and realize that that's not what I
want, then you have two choices.
1: Legalize suicide. Sure many people consider it immoral, but
obviously not the people that would use this law. Otherwise
they wouldn't use it. Plus it would be a grand release for
thsoe of us forced to go through such systems as the one
above, belittled, held back, and even disciplined for their
talents. It's much more humanitarian. To quote Kurt Vonnegut,
"None of us ever asked to be born anyway."
2: Change the school system/social structure around. Yeah, it's
a bit harder, but if the welfare of the general public is at
stake, I think we can all do a little adjusting, and maybe
even in the process, start turning out some highly intelligent
people, like we used to.
If you don't like what I have to say, then you just don't get it.
If you sympathize with what I'm saying, or just want to comment either
way, e-mail me at altrocks@op.net. I'm not writing this out fo spite,
or hate, or anythign else. I just think it's about time someone said
what needs to be said, and maybe even get some attention drawn to the
subject.
And whether you agree with me or not, please, pass this along to
as many people as you can. Thank you.
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #445, WRITTEN BY ALTROCKS - 1/18/99 !!