Of course I'm your side... if thats what everyone else wants too

Prompt: Human Rights v. Majority Rule

Life sometimes seems to throw situations at you that, in the end, will have an outcome that will affect more than just yourself. In some cases, it could affect the generations after you, or it could affect the generations here now. To make a decision that will affect anyone besides your self is often a difficult decision to make, but each and everyone must be made. In today's society, you have to decide whether you will follow the rights you believe should be given to everyone, or if you will follow the ways of others around you.

For this prompt, it brings up the topic of whether society would want a homosexual person teaching in an elementary school, and influencing our children. In all honesty, because of the way I was brought up, my answer to this question would be NO. However, after considering the question I realized how hypocritical this sounds. How is it my right to tell someone that they can not work with children because they have a different preference than I do? To tell a homosexual man or woman that they can not work with kids because they chose to be different is rediculous. Yes, I agree that there are certain people on the Earth that have done some very terrible things to lose their privelages to their human rights, such as rape, murder, and other crimes. Men and women who do not think the same way that the "majority" does should not trialed and condemned as a criminal. They are people as well.

However much I would love to say that I would automatically sway towards my own opinion on human rights, I am aware enough to realize that I would most likely go with the majority opinion ninety-nine percent of the time. Many people often go the path their peers have set before them, no matter how deadly or dangerous it may appear, and only because we would rather appear ignorant than to appear different and go our own way. I believe this is why our society in America is the way it is today. We should not condemn people for being different and we should not follow the opinion of others, and state it as our own. More often than not, that opinion usually causes a problem for us anyway.