For These Principles We Stand

 

For the principles that a people or a society has, it can sometimes make sense to keep with it instead of getting rid of it. Like the old saying,”If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” In today’s society, people are constantly pushing boundaries for: good, and, but mostly for bad. Nevertheless, these boundaries, are sometimes very key.

To cover up, those that push boundaries that are not for the good of society as a whole, these boundary pushers say that they are doing it to make right. Often while shouting to push others' boundaries, and with that same breath, they accuse others who push their boundaries.

Even if a principle seem wrong, for just one case, it is most likely correct in general. Even if it may seem hard, or very emotional charged. Additionally, a case deserves a closer inspection if suddenly something that has worked for generations doesn’t work for just a few people.

When principles are shattered, it means that a flood of other things surrounding that principle just come through. Lets say people were trying to legalize torturing dogs, while unlikely, this is just to prove a point. If it was to be legalized, it is going to be very easy to let other animals be tortured. Why? Because that first principle has been moved, shifted.

Often people don’t realize how much one principle is supporting around that single principle. It is like opening a flood gate or pulling a wooden piece of a tower of Jenga. Expecting it to be easily fix or closed when Pandora’s box has been open is not possible.

Furthermore, even if something seems correct, you could be tricked. Often people who want to prove something, they start with just one case, and then more cases, and suddenly, you have all these people that the rules don't apply or seem unfair to apply to. That which worked just fine all along is suddenly, void, useless. So why are they different? Nothing is different, it's just that the case is being twisted.

Although, a principle might not seem right in some cases, sometimes it is right, maybe just not for that one or the few more others, but that doesn’t make it wrong. The minority is not the most important that it must destroy the majority just because it doesn’t get what it wants. A principle applies to many and several facades. When taking a principle down, much caution must be taken, and no emotion should shove it aside, logic should be taken in accounted for.

Lastly, if the principle applies for so many, and it is has worked all this time, maybe it’s not the principle that needs to be changed, but that person who wishes to change that principle.