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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere are more important things than living...
... So let's have "open borders"; no limits, no quotas. Every refugee, every immigrant, legal or illegal, shall immediately become citizens. Not good enough for you? How about declare every single person on Earth an American citizen right now with all the rights and privileges that come with that. There are more important things than the citizenship process or is living not as important as that process?
... So let's urge every millionaire and billionaire to drain their bank accounts to near completion. Sell off their assets for quick cash. They then turn a lot of that cash into giant effigies and the use rest to fund so that we have like, I don't know, giant hedonistic Burning Man festivals... and with billions of dollars, this could go on for a while, maybe indefinitely. Why have money sitting in the bank or in the Cayman Islands when you could be known for setting the US down a path of revelry and partying? There are more important things that living paycheck-to-paycheck or is living not as important as the paycheck-to-paycheck rat race?
... So let's end the war on drugs. It'll help with the thing above. There are also more important things than busting potheads and putting people who may not have the means to get income in the 'accepted' ways in prison. Living is certainly more important than the war on drugs, right?
... So let's have intersex equality, have the government recognize a third gender, and make it illegal to have 'corrective surgery' for intersex infants. A constructed male/female dichotomy and enforced heteronormativity is certainly nowhere near as important as living, right?
... So let's declare the executive branch no longer necessary for running the US government, maybe say that the current executive branch is no longer representative of Article II of the US Constitution. I'm pretty sure that living is more important than pretending that a demented reality TV host actually represents the US and her hundreds of millions of people...
malaise
(268,904 posts)find out how I was doing. I raised this stupid asinine comment and told him about a close friend's dad. We were sitting with him reading his favorite poems the day before he died.
He sat up and told the two of us that all we have is life and his was coming to an end. He then told us to continue enjoying life and being nice to others. He was 85 and I will never forget his words.
Life is all we fucking have- nothing else is as precious.
SWBTATTReg
(22,110 posts)too late.
You're right, life is precious, don't let others live your life as they see fit, live life as you see fit.
malaise
(268,904 posts)He had a great life
lame54
(35,283 posts)Living long enough to vote Trump out
ck4829
(35,042 posts)If they want to 'reopen' because living is not as important as certain things... then what's on the other side of that coin?