Not On The Ballot (courtesy of Swistle)

Thank you, Swistle, for posting this on your blog!!

I'm re-posting it below as well because it is rad, but you should go to her blog, because she's awesome.

Not On the Ballot

Here are some of the things I think there's more than one way to think about, and everyone can make their own decisions---no agreement necessary from one person to the next:

what to eat
how and where a baby should sleep
bottle-feeding vs. breastfeeding
what religion to follow
public school vs. private school vs. homeschooling
whether to participate in advanced education
alcohol consumption, yea or nay
premarital sex, yea or nay
whether to use birth control
whether to have children
whether to marry
fixed-rate vs. variable-rate mortgage
how clean to keep the house
a good name for a baby

Here are some things I think there's more than one way to think about, but that a community needs to make a decision about as a whole---not deciding "right" from "wrong," but just deciding for consistency what can be done when:

driving age
truancy age
drinking age
marrying age
voting age
speed limits
public park curfews

Here are some of the things I think there is only one way to think about and are not open for community vote, because human beings have not been given that kind of power over other human beings:

whether skin color changes a person's rights
whether ethnic origin changes a person's rights
whether sex changes a person's rights
whether sexual orientation changes a person's rights

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Not On The Ballot (courtesy of Swistle)

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