abort or not abort

Politics are like driving a car... if you are always steering to the left or to the right you'll just keep going in a circle and all that happens is you run out of gas. Democrats and republicans are like the ying yang symbol, although they are complete opposite there is that little dot of the other sides color dead center in it. Examples of this would be the log cabin republicans or conservative democrats.

The greatest situation on seperating democrats from republicans is abortion. This decision on the Roe vs. Wade case has been an ongoing battle that will never end. The far right wing view is simply abortion is murder end of discussion and it becomes a human life at the time of conception.

The far left wing view of this is that one mistake shouldn't have to dictate the life of a teenage girl, or even any other woman that is not ready to deal with the stuggles of a child; and the nine months of being pregnant followed by experiencing a level of pain no man will ever have to endure.

So we have this dilema more about who has the greater rights? Is it the woman or the fetus? Now I have heard some views from some people that call them selves democrats and some that call themselves republicans but none of them stuck to this precise guideline.

In the conservative side I have heard abortion is wrong except for in the case of incest or rape. This would state that murder can be justified, as my liberal friend that stated abortion is murder but it is better than those kids growing up in orphanages, which is an extremely ethical issue I will touch on in another blog.

The more liberal friends of mine would like to bring up the issues that a woman would have to face dealing with being pregnant. Some of my friends say that women would have abortions rather they were legalized or not but by legalizing it they use safer procedures and the woman isn't as susceptible to disease or death from the procedure. One of my friends even goes as far as to say that by legalizing abortion it has reduced the crime rate.

Some of my friends that are more liberal have had an abortion already.The procedure is extremely traumatizing to most of them and a couple of them go mentally insane and had to be baker acted. Basically the aftermath of abortion makes some women feel terrible and they feel afterwards that abortion is murder.

Alternatively they could have had the child gone through the physical and emotional struggles and condemnation. They could've gone through being called sluts and whores and possibly resorted to drugs or another outlet that could negatively impact her and the child. The child would either grow up with a mother that doesn't really want them and would feel like they were a mistake or grow up in an orphanage and feel like no one cares about them.

When strong emotions are set forth in an individual they react strongly in a positive or negative way so the child could become successful and help benefit the world or become a criminal and spend most of there life in jail or prison.

However this isn't accurate for all orphans. The reduce in crime rate helps support that many of those unborn children would've given a negative impact. So the woman 's right isn't quite as clear cut as it may seem and the actual impacts of abortion are not just the choice of the woman or the child but will impact society.

United States in the world

There are over 6.7 billion people living on the planet and among them are approximately 300 million legal United States citizens. This accumulates to about 4.48% of the world population. Yet we consume over 20% of the world's energy.

The United States imports 820 billion more dollars than it exports! The sad reality is that America is the largest consumer of energy in the world yet holds only 4.48% of the world's population. That means 95.52% of the world isn't consuming as much as the average American.

So then what do other countries think of us? There are many factors involved in that, most of the countries in Europe see us as the spoiled stupid consumer. Canada and other North American countries in the first world status agree with Europe and can't stand us because of it.

The second world countries that would be in South America view us as a great powerful and cool nation that they want to aspire to be like. They try to mimic us because many of them work in factories making high quality items that will sell for more than what they will make in a pay period that will be shipped to the U.S.

Now China and India along with some other Asian countries and Cuba may be second world countries but because of their government and religion they view us as many third world countries do. They view us as the evil empire. Although news in the United States has a bias media these countries are on a whole new scale. Dictatorships where the society is closed off to the rest of the world have members that don't know or understand anything the government doesn't want them to know.

So a baseball analogy would be The U.S. is the Yankees, Europe is the Redsox and Asia is the Rays. Although the Yankees look at themselves as the greatest everyone hates them, The Redsox are similar in finance to the Yankees. While the Rays are such a low income and when they get fired up start to target and try to take out the Yankees and the Redsox but over emphasize the Yankees even when there crumbling.

If you don't follow the American League East in baseball then hopefully it has become clear that the U.S. is wealthy and hated. Europe is pretty close to the U.S. in wealth but can't stand us and the dictatorships want to annihilate us.

So we are spoiled though because we say we are in an economic crisis when we pay $4.00 a gallon of gas while Europe pays more than double that and most of the middle east doesn't have running water, electricity or a decent food supply. Our homeless population can go to a public restroom and use running water, we consume more energy than any other nation and complain it's too expensive and destroying the planet, and we have an obesity problem!

Basically we have a surplus and complain when we have too much. When you really think about it most of us don't have too much sympathy for a celebrity with hundreds of millions of dollars having there house burn down or complain about running into financial problems. That's why the world doesn't feel as much remorse for us on our economic crisis.

Perspective

There are many perspectives in the world and even just within the United States. I would like to take these perspectives and focus on different issues. To see what people believe and why they believe it.

If many people could keep an open mind on the other side of every issue and see where they are coming from the world could be a better place. Even if there is a complete disagreement on an issue the two people could see that there view may not be the only right one.

I would like to keep things on a philosophical level and a psychological level of understanding. For example many people would just examine an issue like abortion as being for it or against it but I would like to recognize the motive and reasoning behind each decision and realize within the choice people answer differently.

Most topics will end up falling into moral and ethical codes usually set by religious and political beliefs. So there will be religion and politics incorporated into most if not all of the posts. By entering into religion and politics there will be many strong views against each other but I want to hear out the multiple sides. This may cause the posts to be controversial but when many sides are expressed and no side is viewed as wrong, stupid, or evil, which are all opinionated words that don't hold consistency or true absolute meaning.

Since I am a human being and I think there is a bias formed around what I believe politically and religiously that may cause me to take a side on some issues but won't cause me to negatively portray the opposing view.

In perspectives there is a cultural barrier to be portrayed that typically isn't. There are three categories of economies in the world called first, second and third world countries. The lack in education in the second and third world countries has impaired there view from what most first world countries see as issues. For instance pollution is a first world issue but the second and third world countries are still on survival as illustrated in Maslow's heirarchy of needs chart.

Back to a more philosophical view there are even opposing sides in this area and the most notorious and earliest philosophical opposition is Plato and Aristotle. Plato believed that reality is all perspective and that the world thinks they live in reality when they are really in a shadow of reality. He focused on the ideological and theoretical and believed the ideological is the reality and like his teacher Socrates his intellect is above all other humans.

Alternatively Aristotle believed that the world around us is concrete and real not just ideal. He believed that humans are not stupid and worth getting to know.

I believe both have valid points there is a level of mind over matter that is ideological but there is a concrete world we live in. There view on humans is interesting because I have met some complete idiots that don't want to hear what anyone else has to say and some people worth talking to.

So the future posts that will take place on this site will focus around what has been mentioned above. Although left very broad the topics are focused around a simplistic view and will help establish hopefully more understanding and welcoming people. Reguardless of that task being accomplished there will be a self-realization of what are the readers true moral values and ethics.