SA Counter suit
A recent counter suit was won by a male who was accused and subsequently found guilty of sexual assault at UC Davis in California. Why I feel this is an ethical issue isn't because of the assault which is a horrible thing to do to anyone, but because there is such an overwhelming desire to treat the accused as guilty until proven innocent. I have been falsely accused and I know firsthand how you are treated once the accusation is made public, everyone of my peers immediately ostracized me and it took me months, if not years to regain the standing I had before even though I was found innocent because they wonder if I was in a position to be accused wasn't I wrong in the first place and rarely let that thought go. I will not address the guilt or innocence of the accused, but I am glad that he won because investigations of this type are often done with closed minds, schools want to get the investigation over with so it doesn't affect incoming students, the victim wants to move on as much as possible and the accused was probably in the wrong. With this verdict, maybe school and other institutions will ensure a thorough investigation and better evidence before passing judgement, and maybe if investigations are done better, both real victims will chance coming forward and false victims won't be so quick to accuse.
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Saturday, July 11, 2015
GOP candidates weigh-in on abortion
Well, it's presidential race time and once again topics that shouldn't be topics are all the rage again. I am in the military so I tend to align more with the conservatives on most subjects but this is one that I am tired of. The fact that candidates have to continually pander for money and makes statements solely to appease donors is disgusting to me, but this subject is one of the worst. No government should have the necessity or desire to tell us what to do in our private lives unless our private lives are in direct violation of the laws. As someone who has experienced an abortion with someone close, many ask me how I can be pro-choice (which in the name should say it all), and I tell them that no person has the right to tell me what I can or can't do with my body and that should be everyone's stance honestly. The fact that donors and even the whole party expects their representatives to support such an old fashioned point of view is disturbing in this day and age.
Well, it's presidential race time and once again topics that shouldn't be topics are all the rage again. I am in the military so I tend to align more with the conservatives on most subjects but this is one that I am tired of. The fact that candidates have to continually pander for money and makes statements solely to appease donors is disgusting to me, but this subject is one of the worst. No government should have the necessity or desire to tell us what to do in our private lives unless our private lives are in direct violation of the laws. As someone who has experienced an abortion with someone close, many ask me how I can be pro-choice (which in the name should say it all), and I tell them that no person has the right to tell me what I can or can't do with my body and that should be everyone's stance honestly. The fact that donors and even the whole party expects their representatives to support such an old fashioned point of view is disturbing in this day and age.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Polygamous Marriage in Montana
It seems everyone could see this coming from a mile away, we have all heard the rhetoric against same-sex marriages. "What's to stop a man from marrying a dog?" or this exact example, "Whats to stop a polygamist from marrying multiple wives?", with the former example all I have to say is "Really?" However with the latter I feel it is less black and white, I have friends who live the polyamorous lifestyle who accept they will probably never have a legal marriage, but that doesn't make them love less or different than my wife and I, other than it is just two of us. I personally feel that marriage is personal thing and that the government should stay out of it, if three people can love each other enough to commit for life then who are we to stop them? With the risk of getting into a much bigger issue, I think the bigger problem with marriage these days is that it isn't viewed as a life commitment anymore, but until it no longer works. With that view in mind, what possible harm can come from people who love each other joining in marriage that doesn't already exist?
It seems everyone could see this coming from a mile away, we have all heard the rhetoric against same-sex marriages. "What's to stop a man from marrying a dog?" or this exact example, "Whats to stop a polygamist from marrying multiple wives?", with the former example all I have to say is "Really?" However with the latter I feel it is less black and white, I have friends who live the polyamorous lifestyle who accept they will probably never have a legal marriage, but that doesn't make them love less or different than my wife and I, other than it is just two of us. I personally feel that marriage is personal thing and that the government should stay out of it, if three people can love each other enough to commit for life then who are we to stop them? With the risk of getting into a much bigger issue, I think the bigger problem with marriage these days is that it isn't viewed as a life commitment anymore, but until it no longer works. With that view in mind, what possible harm can come from people who love each other joining in marriage that doesn't already exist?
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