The recent unrest at Mizzou is what lead me to finally writing about this topic. The items below are only a few of the many topics where I find the hypocrisy of society overwhelming.
Left leaning social movements:
Protesters get irate when police officers forcibly remove journalists from the Ferguson protests
When protesters demand “safe space” and forcibly remove journalists from their protest they are defended
Right leaning evangelicals:
People demand that the government leave them alone and stop interfering with their lives
This same group of people turns around and tries to force government officials to pass laws that allow the government to interfere with marriage and attempts to deny women the basic right to make their own choices for matters that affect their own bodies.
Right leaning tea party types:
People cry foul of government regulation getting in the way of too many personal liberties
These same people turn around and demand the government outlaw all drugs and “wage a war on drug users”
Left leaning progressives:
People talk about how prohibitions never work, the yell about how the war on drugs is not effective and how you can’t legislate morality
This same group of people turns around and demands that the government put a prohibition on owning firearms, and they yell from the rooftops how if you make guns illegal it will solve our problem of mass shootings.
The list really could go on for several more of these, but the moral of the story is I just have a real hard time comprehending why most people don’t see the hypocrisy in their view points. Everyone wants to push their own agenda ahead, and take no time to pause and reflect on how to apply their views evenly across a large set of issues. This kind of mentality makes me sad for our country.
