Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

Would you rather be strangled or stabbed to death? Take a moment and think it over.... With stabbing it would probably be very painful but you could still breathe....unless you got blood in your lungs. Stabbing may be a faster death if you were stabbed in the head. I supposed it depends on where one is being stabbed. Also, in the strangling option who would be the aggressor? Is it like getting hung because that's really more like breaking your neck.... Which would be over faster? Okay, got your answer?

While some of you may prefer strangulation to stabbing, I feel fairly confident in saying that most if not all of you would prefer not to be murdered at all. Of course, that wasn't really the question posed. Perhaps that is the issue. Just maybe, we're asking the wrong questions. This concept of asking the right questions could revolutionize the way in which we view issues. Many of the most bitterly fought issues may become a moot point if we could just ask the right questions.

Nearly everyone has an opinion as to whether or not we should be sending more troops into Iran, but there has been no option offered as to whether or not we should pull troops OUT of Iran (not to mention the other 129 countries in which we have military bases).

There is constant debate as to how to fix the ever failing educational system and yet when was the last time you stopped to ponder exactly what constitutional power gives our national government the right to create and operate an educational system in the first place.

Dozens of protests are organized every year to advocate for and against gay marriage. Votes are swayed solely on this issue, and yet I have rarely if ever heard a debate as to whether or not the government should be involved in marriage to begin with.

So, what is the right question? I would propose that it is relatively simple: What does the constitution say? Jefferson explained saying this, "On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invited against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." Some say that the constitution is old or outdated and is no longer applicable in which case our congressional representatives are free to try to amend it. However, to ignore the constitution or aspects of it, is to denounce the entire document and thereby condemn the rules and restraint on which our government is founded, giving them virtually free reign over us.