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To: SiouxPal who wrote (6232)	2/2/2005 1:28:04 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 361303

btw, have I ever disclosed my most fundamental weakness? It's no big deal because I never feel vulnerable with others having that knowledge... I'm claustrophobic. A sentence to anything more than one breath away makes me feel like I've been buried alive. Absolute freedom of conscience, liberty, and justice for all existing simultaniously and absolutely is about all I can tolerate at any one moment in time. What can be done, what must be done for poor li’l ole me? I am sorry to say the world needs to change to accommodate my little idiosyncracies. Let’s start with our constitution… Our greatest glories ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘freedom of religion’ are inadequate. … Ok, take a moment and breath here… … … … Lets fix it. Start here: Our constitution should say: “No person shall be required to violate an issue of personal conscience in the performance of public or private service to another.” Do you realize how many ways we are currently violating this principle. Count the number of US citizens and multiply that by their social trauma and you may start to get an inkling. For example, if I receive medical counseling that advises me to have surgery and I decide to ‘go for it’ but while in the waiting room I have a revelation about alternative medicine and decide to change my lifestyle to get healed… can I be ‘released’ from the hospital? Bye bye vital organ… Conscientious objection to violent military action is well known but what if I am not a card carrying member of a pacifist religious organization? What if I have been an ass whoopin’ drunken bum all my life and become enlightened while marching to combat? How about signing a contract to perform some service that I get the ickies about once faced with the task. Etc etc etc. Contracting or otherwise entering into formal agreements is absolutely necessary for a smooth running society. However, we should recognize that our humanness must override even this standard. Yes the world needs to change and lacking an adequate response, I shall be obligated to annoy everyone, everywhere at all times until it does. ... apologies in advance. Until freedom of conscience is a societal norm I remain… claustrophobicly yours, Jewel