Like it or not, We're Imperfect

The thing that people have to realize is this. People are imperfect. Whether your Christian or Buddhist or Hindu or whatever, the bottom line is people are imperfect. If your religion tells you otherwise then I'd look a bit deeper into history, not to mention your own life. We have a tendency towards doing evil, that is why the balloon isn't filled with helium. So basically we have everything going against us. The only thing for us, is that we have a mind that can grasp that we are basically evil, and can do something about it. We are sensitive to morality, whatever your source of morality is.

People argue all the time about morality. Now, I personally am a believer in Jesus Christ as a saviour. I am not a Baptist, I'm not a Methodist, I'm not a Presbyterian, or a Catholic. I am a Christian. So I believe that the human life has value, and that “We Hold these Truths to be Self-evident”, and I quote “That all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain Unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Now, in case you hadn't already recognized these timeless words, they are from the Declaration of Independence. Now what this means, is that you have the right to do anything you want as long as your not popping somebody else's balloon in the process. The big thing people don't recognize though, is what counts as popping somebody else's balloon. People think, “well, murder, that counts, and stealing, yeah, that's it.”
Well I hate to break it to you, but there are many more things that “count”. People, in their basically evil nature, are constantly trying to stretch the rules,like, convincing this woman that her husband won't mind if we have good time together. Just because somebody agrees to be a partner in something bad doesn't mean it isn't bad, and it doesn't mean you're not responsible for the bad things that you do together. Doing something evil, early in a person's life, effects the rest of a persons life. We are called not to falsely influence people into doing something evil, because it counts as popping their balloon.

So, there is one more thing that this does for us. If somebody pops our balloon, then we have the right to pursue happiness, which means an action of self-defense. This gives us the right to fight evil. It gives us the right to retaliate in protection of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We are also called to protect others who can't protect themselves. If that means sending “bloodthirsty, trigger happy marines” out to kill terrorists, then so be it. I personally am going to take my hat off to them when they come back to America. You see people think fighting is bad. But it's not, what you fight for is bad or good. And depending on whether it is bad or good, the fighting is bad, or good.

-Joshua A. Shillingworth