What makes a Law Unjust? *part 2*

You know now that I think about it, I don't know why I linked this blog entry with my previous one - they don't have much in common at all. Truth be told, I wrote this bit in my journal quite some time ago and I only remembered that I wrote something about laws. Now that I've re-read what I wrote I see that I actually wrote about rights and linked laws and rights in my head as a natural order. Anyhow, my bad for the random part 2, enjoy the food for thought!

I have a friend who once wrote a very interesting essay about rights. She felt that there really was no such thing as rights. That it was a man made idea to control and conform. And I feel like I may agree with her to a certain extent.

You see I understand that rights are necessary; without structure there is chaos. And everything has a structure. Plants, animals, weather, and of course, humans (although humans are by far the most rebellious to that structure). Yet our definition of structure is a completely different term than that of the universe's definition of structure.

We may automatically think of school, or government, or even parents and religion as structure - and they are, no doubt. But they are each a different kind of structure. School and government are absolutely man-made - and for good reason (though that can become skewed sometimes...often). And I feel like parents are a biological structure that are questioned and changed as the relationship progresses. I think religion is a structure that is God-made and tampered with by humans.

Sometimes I feel like God may just be sitting in heaven and smirking at us, lolling (that's right, I said it) in his head at how ridiculously we mess up over the simplest things. And then he lets out a sigh of 'when will they ever learn' and sends us something to grab onto before we completely lose our balance and fall into the vast abyss of silly questions.

Anyhow, the topic at hand was about rights. I feel like natural rights are too tampered with, and that's when they become man-made. Take, for instance, our country. I personally believe that state and church (religious structure) are meant to work together. The fact that we have severed them has caused us to sever our natural rights (and it seems it's been way too long, and would be way too opposed, to go back and fix it now - for this nation anyways).

So i suppose what I'm getting at is that there are a set of natural rights and a set of man-made rights. the man-made rights began with good intentions (i hope) but they get more and more liquefied as our generations pass...our moral convictions are melting. and thus, due to this state of matter change, our natural rights are being tampered with, ignored, and questions by no one other than ourselves.

My thoughts on this are still not completely molded, they are molding. But I do know that, so far, this world has avoided complete chaos - so there must be a set of structures that we have been abiding by correctly so far. However, somewhere along the time line we stopped doing most of what we were doing right, to such an extent that we have far passed the line of minimal safety.

Humanity is hanging by a single thread that itself is tearing. We think we are living the life. We think we have every thing we could have possibly ever asked for. I don't think anyone realizes just how close to chaos we really are. Our natural structure of rights have been severed, and we don't have a big enough band-aid to fix so many generations of boo-boos. Thus, Chaos is in her crypt, sneering and snickering, sensing her time come closer, and she's clicking her finger nails against each other.

I can't remember what mood I was in when I wrote this last year, but I assume it wasn't horribly bright...

Thoughts?