Discrimination or Caution?

              With all the recent issues with ISIS in the Middle East the issue is “caution or discrimination”, and as everybody knows there are always two sides to every story. So let’s start with discrimination, obviously not every Muslim is part of ISIS or Al Qaida, not all Muslims are going to blow up planes and bomb buildings. So it is wrong of us to look at a Muslim and discriminate against him or her. With all the Muslims in the world, many of them are very peaceful people, and then there are those who are jihadists and terrorists. But which one of them is the true Muslim? Because only one of those groups is interpreting the Koran correctly, and experts and professors lean more towards the jihadists being more accurate in the interpretation of the Koran. However that does not mean that they are 100% correct, only more accurate in their readings and studies than the peaceful Muslim. So to be real for a second, if you see a Muslim at an airport getting ready to board the flight with you, what are you going to think? I quite frankly would be a little nervous, of course not to the point where I want to get off the airplane or anything extreme like that. But I would probably have some sketchy feelings depending on the circumstances, and I don’t consider that discrimination, I call it being cautious. You have to remember 9/11, I’m sure there were passengers on those planes who had sketchy feelings too, even though Islam wasn’t as big of an issue with America then as it is now. But I wouldn’t consider that wrong, it would be like if a homeless person beat you up and robbed you one day, you’re probably going to be cautious around homeless people, even though they aren’t all bad people. There is a fine line between discrimination and caution.

We are at a time in the world where half of the marriages in the United States fail and end in divorce. This is not shocking to me at all, we live in a time where the media approves and encourages lust, and affairs, and makes it look normal to us. The saying “If you want it, go get it”, encourages the act of adultery, and the media gives people, both men and women, the idea of cheating on their spouse. Statistics show that marriages that end in divorce leave the separated couples in debt, and not financially stable, because of court, the lawyers and child support. So how can marriages be built back and restored, and kept that way? Unfortunately I don’t think they can, I think our society is too far gone to turn things around, and the only way to restore a marriage is with God’s help, and to want too, and I don’t think our selfish society likes doing the right thing these days.

Mary Jane

                          Since the legalization of marijuana in Colorado in 2012, there has not been much of a difference in revenue for the government. Granted the sales tax added on marijuana has definitely brought forth some cash but not as much as expected. The controversy over legalizing marijuana was either one, that it would bring millions of dollars to the government in taxes, or it would spark a social nightmare and drug abuse would take place, neither of which has happened. All the legalization of marijuana does is allow pot-smokers to just feel safer, and feel better about themselves that they aren’t breaking the law. No matter what state you go to, no matter where in the world you go to! There will always be drugs and there’s nothing anyone can do about it, it’s just the nature of man to do what makes him feel good. At first I thought yeah the legalization has to make a huge profit in taxes, but not everybody goes to a local herb store in Colorado to buy weed, when they could either grow it themselves, or buy it from a dealer much cheaper. So the question I ask myself is, should marijuana be legalized in other states as well? Or remain illegal. And personally I think it just depends on the states preference, because the use of marijuana is federally illegal, but a state can choose to make it legal obviously. But if it’s not bringing in as much revenue as we suspected why is it still legal? Why was an immoral thing such as this even legalized in the first place? Purely for money. We’ve become so corrupted as a society, that it doesn’t matter if what we are doing is immoral and wrong, but as long as we make money from it and as long as we are satisfied.