There is a view, common to many religions, with which I disagree. This view is that the world was created by some sort of Higher Power according to an ineffable plan. We are told that the world simply is, and that it is our place to accept it, not to question, challenge, or oppose it. We may be told that questioning it is sinful, or merely that it is pointless and counterproductive, but in any case we are admonished against it.
Some people may find this view comforting, but I find it oppressive. I believe that it is everyone's right to have an opinion about the world in all its aspects. If you believe that the world is a worse place for having pain, suffering, and death in it, it is your right to have that belief and act on it, and you are not required to subjugate it to fate, destiny, or an ineffable higher power.
I believe that Judgement is not a divine privilege reserved for a select one or few, but is the fundamental right of every being capable of it. You are entitled to think that some things are good, and others bad, or that some are better and others worse. Some of them you may be able to change. Some of them you may not, but even so, you are not required to accept them. You may elect nonetheless to consider them unacceptable.
You may wonder why any sane person would want to do this. I might wonder as well. After all, opposing things which cannot realistically be changed has brought me a great deal of pain, anger, and active opposition from people who think I have ideas above my station. Nonetheless, it has also brought me something else which I consider sufficient to make up for all these. That thing is hope. As long as someone considers the current state of affairs unacceptable, there is hope that someday it will be different. To give up and accept things as they are is to give up that hope — and that, I think, would be unacceptable.
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