"Or do you determine what is fine?"
Yes, me and a lot of other decent people. Civil Rights was right, I'm sure you would even agree on that one. Human rights are always just. I'm sure in the future there will be other topics where you have the possibility of making a better point, it's not here. And why would I care about what a homophobe thinks about gay rights? You think there is some deep insight they can provide me, some decent argument. No. It's not that complicated.
Many people follow rules not because they are forced to but out of common decency because it's an understood etiquette that makes living in one place easier and better. For example - people use the quote function because it's easier and makes the forum better.
So civil and human rights - in big holistic terms you can't question the moral high ground - but look at specific things and then what what is your opinion? Then within that look at small legal cases and tell me what you think.
Affirmative action?
Restricting access to abortion?
Equal pay for equal work?
Don't Ask Don't Tell?
Recognition of gender in cases of reassignment surgery?
Rights of people to collectively bargain and unionize?
Doesn't everyone have a right to free basic healthcare?
Gay rights?
Right to smoke pot - there's an obvious one
Invading Iraq? A proper protest could have saved 100,000s of lives but those against it were VILLIFIED as ANTI-AMERICAN.
Oh, these don't affect you so it doesn't matter does it. You act like everyone just "knew" we needed civil rights. You act like civil rights is all just one big positive move. What about the civil rights that had a negative affect on other groups? What about rules that had a push-pull effect on groups?
There's a class in America I call the "alright jack" class. As long as nothing shit happens to them they assume that nothing shit is going to happen to other people as long as they work hard in school and get that good job. It's the American dream that some have the luxury of believing exists.
What about those who are arrested for protesting? Are they doing anything wrong? Should they do it differently?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-henn/keystone-xl-protest_b_4886208.html
Or should we just accept everything as long as they don't find oil in Orlando. If you have convictions in something what should you do?
What about anti-war protests, what about protests for civil rights (you don't think people got arrested - were they doing something wrong?), what about the Occupy movement? What about protesting nuclear power?
Right, I go with the information at hand. Did you watch the video? It was pretty clear the reporter was just egging him on. You post doesn't make much sense. The video was from the reporter, the reporter wrote the article. You say I can't know much, but the reporter can. Well, that's where I got the info from. And you don't need to be there when you can simply watch the video and see where he says twice, don't shake the gun at me. There was no gun shaking, one time he said it, the officer wasn't even looking at him. And I didn't ask for your acceptance, I was just posting my opinion. You didn't touch any of the specific points I brought up. So what are your views on it, where specifically do you disagree with me.
The information at hand - but clearly you know far less than anyone else that was there. You have a video of a moment (not the before, not the after, not of other people, and not a wide angle). I don't think anything was particularly clear other than guys in military type dress armed with weapons were ordering people to leave (and not being nice about it).
Where's the second amendment play here in your mind? Or does it not have any role here at all?
I didn't meant to say anything about acceptance. I was merely saying that your point of view was fairly irrelevant - we should really only be listening to people that live in that area because your point of view is just secondary information. If a German can't use information at hand to make opinions about the US I don't see how a Floridian can make opinions about things out of state.
How did you find the information (beyond the video). Was it unbiased? Perhaps the only unbiased media is foreign? But then they don't know what it's like because they don't live in America..... see where that one dimensional view hurts?
Perhaps if Americans had taken the time to understand European, Asian, Middle Eastern opinion more they'd be less hated worldwide.
It's not my beef. Like I said, I should be able to travel where I want, simple as that. And did you miss the part they do allow some travel to Cuba? So, they're not exactly too hard up on it. And it doesn't impact me, since I have no desire to visit Cuba. I can just go to Miami.
They allow restricted travel to Cuba but it's bigger than that.. European countries are free to deal with Cuba - however, the US sees this as a violation of sanctions so it's not just about flying its about global politics (but not being European and not being Cuban you don't care because it has no impact on you).
Have you been to or lived in Miami or are you just making little a jab for the hell of it? I can be pretty sure that Miami is not even close to Cuba and that statement comes off us glib, uneducated, borderline racist, and without much of an understanding of what it is to be a Cuban national. In other words, offensive.
