Gay Rights vs Gun Rights

Do our rights have to be right?

By any arbitrary system, not necessarily.

What is the government's job - its duty to its citizens? To protect us and our rights, right? Right. Here's an idea: Restrictions can actually bring the entity on which they are placed more freedom. About a century ago, a German man by the surname of Gödel formulated a theory - which became a scientific law - dealing with a phenomenon called transfinite numbers. This whole idea evolved around, and eventually proved the fact that, not all infinities are equal. Take the counting number 1 - infinity, for instance. Now compare those with the rational numbers between the numbers 1 and 2. The latter will always be more infinite, because for every counting number from 1 to infinity, there will always be at least one more rational number between the numbers 1 and 2; the two sets do not hold a one-to-one correspondence with each other.

"So you're saying that there are more numbers (i.e. a larger opportunity bank) when you restrict your set to any number within one number than any number I could ever count to?"

"Basically, yes. And I'm saying the same thing about laws too."

As soon as a government, like our own, with a set of seemingly ethical laws begins to move away from this set into a set that claims "infinity," it decreases the potential of its opportunity bank. Don't believe me? Look at two things: History and science. Societal declination into debauchery never ends well, at least for itself.

I think an argument that my own political views (which are anti-homsexual marriage and qualified pro-second amendment stances) are contradictory. I don't think they are though, because these to things are fundamentally different: Pro-homosexual marriage lobbyists are fighting against a law in our set whereas pro-gun rights lobbyists are fighting for a law already in our set. If our set (the Constitution) is good, then it is a set that will only become more limited as people try to make it more accommodating.

I will certainly talk about societies that have historically found themselves facing similar choices, and when the people and/or leaders of that society choose debauchery over chastity, they always fall, "and great is the fall thereof." I will probably use the Song Dynasty of Medieval China as a prime example. Ancient Israel would be good as well. And Babylon, though there is some academic debate about whether that even existed, so it may not be the strongest premise possible.

So, in a very specific, non-arbitrary way, yes - our rights do have to be right.

I've been wanting to write on this idea for a long time now. I'm excited to finally get it out of my head and heart and on to some paper! Any feedback would be well appreciated.