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Month: May 2022
What Does The Second Amendment Mean To You?
With the recent shootings in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX, attention has been focused on the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. What do you think of it?
The text reads, in full:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
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Does this amendment signify a deep-seated right for individuals to bear arms? Is it an antiquated holdover from years ago? Does the vague language help or hurt it?
You don’t need to be a constitutional scholar to hold an opinion. What is yours?
Related questions: How can we encourage debate? Personal Rights or Public Safety? When should you not follow the law? How can we be safe?
Active Or Passive?
Which one are you: active or passive? Which is the best way to get things done?
Share why if you wish.
Active Or Passive?
How Are You Just Like Your Parents?
There are moments in life where you might remind yourself of your mother or father. Do you have any examples of you being like your parents?
Share why if you wish.
Why Are We So Divided?
No matter which metric you use, it seems like there is a yawning gap between people. We are more divided than ever. What is fueling this growing difference?
Short of an escalation into violence, it’s difficult to imagine a more divided population than exists in the United States and the world.
Income inequality means more families are struggling to make ends meet. At the same time, wealth is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
There are more people leaving organized religion with each passing year. Those that remain feel persecuted.
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But by far, the most intense division is political. Individuals in different political parties can’t even seem to have a civil conversation. Each side believes the other one is destroying the country. As a result, we are self-selecting into opposing neighborhoods, cities, and states. Nuance, complexity, and compromise are forgotten or ignored.
How did we get here? What is the cause of this division? Is it a media that is chasing advertising money? Or political leaders looking to consolidate power and influence? Are the wealthy looking to collect even more money? Are the poor lazy and shiftless? Alternately, are social media outlets — a new technology — spreading misinformation in the interest of attracting viewers?
In your opinion, who is to blame for our current state of disunity? And more importantly, perhaps, how can we reverse that trend and see our commonalities rather than our differences? Why are we so divided?
Related questions: What do we have in common? How can we encourage meaningful conversation? Why do we hate? How do we know we are right?