Meagan May of Manhattan, Kansas was fired from her job and has received some death threats because she posted on Facebook her views on war and how it should not be glorified the way it is. The Government can protect her by either charging the company in fines for taking away her rights or they can help her get another job. But for all it's power the government can never stop people from arguing. Our country is based on arguments and compromises. Without them there would be no individuality. However, because of them, some people take away rights that they think is fair. This would lead us to anarchy; which is why our government was implemented in the first place. So we have a government to protect our rights, but our rights are still being limited be each other. If the government were to process every single event in order to protect everyone's rights, there would be no way to live, it would take too much time, energy, and manpower and our rights to privacy would be broken. So our government has to find the balance between ignoring the people and being overbearing to the people. This is why and how our government was formed, however it is a far from perfect system.
One problem with our system is that we don't use past experiences to help us as much as we should. Courts look at things too literally and case law is only relevant if the cases are practically identical. But if we took a broader view to our rights. I believe that different factions, different ages, and different beliefs would come together to form something stronger. For example: Gay Rights. It would seem that we have never conquered a case like gay rights before, but if you broaden your sight and see that we abolished slavery and allowed woman suffrage because: all humans are created equal. This statement should be the deciding factor in every case. If one person can do something that another person cannot, then that situation should be changed. If one person is doing something that harms no one and takes nothing from any body yet they are still punished, then we know that they truly are doing nothing wrong.
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/science_tech/meagan-may-facebook-controversy-says-she-was-fired-for-posting-critical-comments-about-military
I believe that it is possible to use older cases to make decisions on modern cases even they are not exactly identical. Take, for example, cases that would involve liberties such as universal manhood suffrage or some og the civil rights cases like Plessy v. Ferguson or Brown v. Board of Education.
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