In accordance with the guides to improve happiness, all future happiness of all people depend on the state of the world (physical and emotional)...and doing good for others makes us happy. Without a world, it is not possible to pursue the understanding of it. Commandments 1,6,8,9

Limiting rights granted, in favor of rights earned, helps balance privileges with performance. While a dismissal of all birthrights, would be both impossible and equally unjust, setting (even lofty) ceilings, in regards to the unearned, would be beneficial.

Far too often, injustice is promoted with the excuse “it is the system”. From zoning laws, to death row cases, if the system is creating or causing an injustice, the system should be dissolved.

I was raised Catholic.

It is good for us -- both joyful and ennobling -- to be confronted and challenged by the grandeur and ultimate mystery of the universe. A person so moved will not cling imperiously to preconceived ideas, or hate other people for the comparatively tiny differences between them.

Characterizing intellectuals and scientists as ivory tower elitists or conspirators results in a society which doesn't value learning and mistrusts those who do. It leaves us unable to rationally address the challenges with which we are faced.

Freedom, in all its forms, is only free when authority can stand up to the challenges of questioning. to not question authority is to give up your freedom.